Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Lulzhausen Gnomes, House Gnomes of Kreschhaus
Category: Gnome
The Myth
In the village of Lulzhausen stood a house known as Kreschhaus, where it was said the little gnomes had their entrance and exit.
Each evening, after supper, the people living in the house would place their leftover food on the kitchen cupboard. As they did so, they would say, “This is for the little gnomes,” and then they would go to bed without clearing the table or washing the dishes.
During the night, the unseen gnomes would come into the house. By morning, the inhabitants would find that the dishes had been carefully scrubbed and set back in their proper places. The house would be clean, and the food left out for them would be gone.
Thus the people knew the little gnomes had come in the night, eaten what was given to them, and repaid the kindness with their quiet work.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Wichtlein zu Lulzhausen. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wichtlein_Lulzhausen.html
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