The Crock of Gold

The Crock of Gold is a mixture of philosophy Irish folklore and the “battle of the sexes” it consists of six books the story rotate around a philosopher and his quest to find the most beautiful woman in the world Cáitilin Ni Murrachu daughter of a remote mountain farm and deliver her from the gods Pan and Aengus Óg while himself going through a catharsis. The Philosopher is arrested for murder after the neighbouring Leprecauns of Gort na Clocha Mora (whose crock of gold has been taken) lay information with the police that the two friends who shared the Philosopher’s house have died with the implication that they have been killed. “It is in circumstances such as these that dangerous alliances are made” wrote Stephens “and for the first time in history the elemental beings invoked bourgeois assistance.”