Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Konsdorf Gnomes, Wichtelhäusercher Gnomes
Category: Gnome
The Myth
In the district of Konsdorf there is a place known as the Wichtelhäusercher, the Gnome Houses. It was said that underground dwellings once lay there, where little gnomes lived.
One day a farmer was plowing his field directly above these hidden homes when he suddenly heard a voice calling from below, “Mama, bake me a cake!” Laughing, the farmer repeated the call, “Bake me a cake!”
When he turned his plow and came back to the same place, he found a cake lying there on a plate. As he picked it up, he heard a voice say, “This cake will last as long as no one else finds out about it.”
And indeed, the cake lasted for three whole years. Whenever a piece was cut away, the missing part filled itself again.
But the farmer’s wife from Grevenhaus was talkative and could not keep the secret. As soon as she revealed it to the godmother, the cake disappeared at once.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Die Wichtelmännchen bei Konsdorf. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wichtlein_Konsdorf.html
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