Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Freimeieschlesser, Wichtelcher of Feulen
Category: Gnome
The Myth
In the hedges around the village of Feulen, there are places where fragments of old walls still stand. The people of the area call these remains the Freimeieschlesser. Long ago, they were said to have been the castles and dwellings of the Wichtelcher, the little gnomes who once lived there.
These small beings were believed to have lived close to the people of Feulen. When villagers worked to close and maintain the hedges, the gnomes would join them and help with the labor. They worked quietly beside the humans, taking part in the daily tasks of the land.
In return for their help, the villagers shared their food with them. The gnomes were said to be small in stature, no taller than a child of three or four years old.
Though the gnomes are no longer seen, the broken walls in the hedges remain, and the people of Feulen remember them as the old homes of the little helpers who once worked and ate alongside their human neighbors.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Freimeieschlesser zu Feulen. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Freimeieschlesser.html
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