# The Crock of Gold — Character guide

> Key figures in The Crock of Gold by James Stephens.

- [Seumas Beg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/seumas_beg.md): Seumas Beg is one of two philosophers raised in a sunless pine wood, married against his will to a wife who pinches him in bed, and respected throughout the countryside for answering questions no one else could. His real
- [Pan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/pan.md): Pan appears in a heather-clumped field where children find him, and from that moment he becomes the axis around which the story's human and divine quarrels turn. He is desire without apology, claiming Caitilin Ni Murrach
- [Caitilin Ni Murrachu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/caitilin_ni_murrachu.md): Caitilin Ni Murrachu is Meehawl's daughter, a girl who milks goats on the hillside and gives herself to Pan without fuss or forethought. When Angus Óg asks her to judge between the two gods, she stands in genuine distres
- [Meehawl MacMurrachu](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/meehavl_macmurrachu.md): Meehawl MacMurrachu of the Hill is a plain man caught between the petty malice of the Leprecauns and the grand abstractions of the philosophers he consults. His grievances are practical, his daughter has vanished into a 
- [Angus Óg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/angus_og.md): Angus Óg is the desolate god of a nation that no longer remembers him, hiding his laughter in rocks and caves while he sings of a marriage between Thought and Intuition that has never occurred. He wants Caitilin not mere
- [Thin Woman of Inis Magrath](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/thin_woman_of_inis_magrath.md): The Thin Woman of Inis Magrath is one of two formidable wives who married the philosophers out of spite and have been regretting it, or enjoying it, ever since. She lectures on the cunning of weakness, packs cakes for a 
- [Shawn](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/shawn.md): A young man in love with Caitilin who joins the Happy March, caught between human longing and the strange company of gods and philosophers.
- [Brigid Beg](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/brigid_beg.md): A sharp-eyed young girl raised among philosophers and secrets, who accompanies the Thin Woman on a journey through a world of gods and tricksters.
- [Leprecaun](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/leprecaun.md): A mischievous fairy who lures children to Gort na Cloca Mora with griddle bread and milk, then bows to the Thin Woman's authority.
- [Grey Woman of Dun Gortin](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/grey_woman_of_dun_gortin.md): A mysterious old woman who gives advice to the philosophers.
- [Leprecauns of Gort na Cloca Mora](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/leprecauns_of_gort_na_cloca_mora.md): A group of leprecauns who guard hidden treasure.
- [Shepherd Girl](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/shepherd_girl.md): A shepherdess who interacts with the characters briefly.
- [Cold Demon](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_crock_of_gold_se/characters/cold_demon.md): A supernatural entity encountered by the philosophers.

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