The goblins and St. Patrick. Traditional Irish Story

Every March 17th, the Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated, an Irish festival that has crossed borders and is now celebrated in many places around the world. In Guiainfantil.com we tell you why in Ireland it is related to Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, with the green pixies. This is the tr

Every March 17th, the Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated, an Irish festival that has crossed borders and is now celebrated in many places around the world.

In Guiainfantil.com we tell you why in Ireland it is related to Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, with the green pixies. This is the traditional Irish legend.

Legend of Saint Patrick and the goblins to tell the children

Legend has it that Saint Patrick, patron of the Irish after founding his first church, invited all non-believers to join Christianity. Saint Patrick performed several miracles and then, all pagans began to join the church.

Meanwhile, the druids, who were the priests of the pagan gods, thought of setting in motion a plan for all their followers to return with them and stop following Saint Patrick.

It was then that the druids invoked the goblins and sent a large troop of them to St. Patrick's church to make the monk's life impossible.

The little pixies then began to make their own and they spent jokes and tricks on the parishioners who came to St. Patrick's Church. So many blunders made them that the Christians began to complain because they were not allowed to pray and suffered endless excesses in the temple.

At that time Saint Patrick decided to face them, knowing that it was the work of the druids. So it was that the monk confronted them with the following words: 'In the name of Almighty God I drive you out, unclean spirits.'

These few words helped Saint Patrick to banish the goblins from the church, and with them he got the druids to stop bothering the new parishioners.

From then until today, the image of Saint Patrick is used to keep the elves away and keep them from doing their thing.