Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Pirmesknapp Gnomes, Buderscheid Gnomes
Category: Gnome
The Myth
On the Pirmesknapp near Buderscheid, it was said that a castle of the Knights Templar once stood and that all who lived there perished in a single night.
Yet when the people of the region spoke of these Templars, they often described them not as knights, but as little men — gnomes who lived in underground dwellings built of brick. These small beings were believed to serve the sanctuary of the mountain and to dwell beneath it in hidden chambers.
A similar story was told of the church called Heidenkirch in Heiderscheidergrund. There, too, the little gnomes were said to have lived in brick-built underground homes.
Thus the memory of the vanished castle and the old sanctuary became joined with the tales of the small folk who were believed to dwell beneath the earth.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Wichtelcher auf dem Pirmesknapp. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wichtlein_Pirmesknapp.html
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