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A German garden gnome. Garden gnomes (German: Gartenzwerge, lit. 'garden dwarfs') are lawn ornament figurines of small humanoid creatures based on the mythological creature and diminutive spirit which occur in Renaissance magic and alchemy, known as gnomes. They also draw on the German folklore of the dwarf.
GNOME (/ɡəˈnoʊm/, /ˈnoʊm/) [6] [7] [8] originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, [9] is a free and open-source desktop environment for ...
A haltija (haltia) is a spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic haltijar, which referred to the original settler of a homestead—although this is not the only possible etymology.
“Gnome” is an umbrella term for a tiny humanoid creature, typically resembling a wizened old man decked out in a beard and some sort of pointy hat; they are rooted in German mythology, then ...
The Knocker, Knacker, or Tommyknocker (US) is a mythical, subterranean, gnome-like creature in Cornish and Devon folklore. The Welsh counterpart is the coblyn. It is closely related to the Irish leprechaun, Kentish kloker and the English and Scottish brownie. The Cornish describe the creature as a little person 2 ft 0 in (0.61 m) tall, with a ...
The little house gnomes are said to have done all the work of the citizens of Cologne during the night, so that the inhabitants of Cologne could be very lazy during the day. According to the legend, this went on until a tailor's wife got so curious to see the gnomes that she scattered peas onto the floor of the workshop to make the gnomes slip ...
A coblyn (plural coblynau [1]) is a mythical gnome-like creature that is said to haunt the mines and quarries of Wales and areas of Welsh settlement in America. [2] Like the Knockers of Cornish folklore they often help miners to the richest veins of ore or other treasures by their peculiar knocking sound. They appear dressed in miniature mining ...
Krasnoludek or krasnal is the Polish name for a mythological type of gnome or dwarf, common in many Polish and translated folk tales. They resemble small humans and wear pointy red hats. The mythological dwarf is of Germanic origin and appeared in Polish folktales in the 16th or 17th century. [1]