Tradition / Region: Luxembourg Mythology
Alternate Names: Kopstal Gnomes, Buchenfeld Wichtelcher
Category: Gnome
The Myth
In Kopstal, at a place called Buchenfeld, little gnomes were once said to live. People claimed to have seen them there, and later, when the ground was dug, tools were found that were believed to have belonged to them.
At night, the little beings would enter the stables and feed the livestock. Once, the farmhand of the farmer Schneidesch saw one of the gnomes sitting naked upon a cow. He told the farmer what he had seen.
The farmer decided to show kindness to the little man. One evening he left clothes for him in the stable. The next morning the clothes had vanished, and from that time on the gnomes were no longer seen there.
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Sources
sagen.at contributors. (n.d.). Wichtelcher zu Kopstal. In sagen.at, from https://www.sagen.at/texte/sagen/luxemburg/Wichtlein_Kopstal.html
Interpretive Lenses
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