Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Kâtzelê Gnomes, Lulzhausen Rock Gnomes
Category: Gnome
The Myth
Near the village of Lulzhausen stands a high rock known as the Kâtzelê, where little gnomes were once said to live.
They were especially fond of a certain man from Esch. Whenever he drove his two horses, one red and one white, into the area near the rock in the evening and fell asleep, he would later wake to find that the white horse had been carefully groomed and cleaned. The red horse, however, was always left just as it had been. This happened every time he came near the Kâtzelê.
Another time, a farmhand was passing the Kâtzelê stream on his way to plow. As he went by, he heard voices from within the rocks calling out, “Bake me a cake too!” Laughing, he called back, “Bake me one too!” and continued on his way without giving the matter further thought.
But before an hour had passed, a little man came running up to him, placed a small, freshly baked cake on his plow, and quickly disappeared again.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Die Wichtelcher in der Kâtzelê. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wichtlein_Katzele.html
Interpretive Lenses
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