What are some differences in the fairy's in "A Midsummer's Night Dream" from lepruchuans?
http://www.pathguy.com/mnd.htm
This writer puts them all into one category: "People may have believed, or half-believed, in the fairies (elves, sprites, pixies, leprechauns, and so forth)."
And elsewhere I see them written in the same sentences, implying they are the same (or at least similar):
http://www.google.com/search?q=contrast+fairies+leprechauns+%22midsummer's+night's+dream%22&oq=contrast+fairies+leprechauns+%22midsummer's+night's+dream%22&aqs=chrome.0.69i57.17817j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=fd37ca4320edeeb3&q=contrast+fairies+leprechauns+