A man in Leitrim captured a leprechaun and took him home, hoping to force him to tell where his treasure is. He shut him up in a room, but during the night the man heard terrible noises and commotion. The leprechaun had gone wild, and was breaking everything in the room, and so the man in terror and desperation lets him go.
A man with a deformity captured a leprechaun one day and asked him where his treasure was. The leprechaun bargained that, if released, he would cure the man’s ailments. The man released the leprechaun, and next morning he woke up to find that he was well and sound.