St. Patricks Day is a holiday that originates from Ireland and commemorates the death of St. Patrick, Ireland’s patron saint. When most people think of St. Patrick’s day, they think of finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, getting pinched by leprechauns and everything being the color green. Since St Patricks day is an Irish holiday, Americans celebrate it uniquely with their own traditions.

“I love St. Patricks Day so much because every year since second grade, me and my friend go out to a field and look for four leaf clovers,” sophomore Arianna Dangi said. “They are really rare to find, but it really embodies St. Patrick’s Day.”

Everyone has their own personal traditions that they do on St. Patrick’s day. One very widespread tradition is to wear green. The tradition to wear green on this holiday stems from the landscape of Ireland and the color of shamrocks. Wearing green is such a main component of St. Patrick’s day that people pinch others who aren’t wearing green. This comes from Irish folklore, wearing green makes one invisible to leprechauns and if one doesn’t wear green a leprechaun will pinch them. 

“I think people should celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by making sure you wear green,” Dangi said. “I feel like it should be nailed on more that you need to pinch people if they’re not wearing green. I feel like people don’t pinch enough on St. Patrick’s Day.”

A symbolic food representing St. Patricks Day is chocolate gold coins. These are given out to represent leprechauns’ love for gold and the magical pot at the end of the rainbow. 

“Because I’m ginger I had this really funny idea to give out gold chocolate coins to my close friends on St. Patrick’s Day,” sophomore Claire Brightwell said.