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The Mainzelmännchen are either wights or dwarves, and display similarities to Heinzelmännchen.They often wear a Phrygian cap similar to garden gnomes without beard. Their appearances often last three to five seconds, during which they perform a single short gag.
In 2008, the art historian Florian Illies made a comparison to J. M. W. Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844), "modernity's break-in into art history", and interpreted Gnome Watching Railway Train as Spitzweg's self-ironic comment to his reputation as someone who wanted to stop time.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Books about gnomes" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 ...
A subplot in the 2001 French movie Amélie revolves around a "travelling" garden gnome. A two-foot-tall (60 cm) garden gnome with a long, white beard, red conical hat and blue coat is the central figure in Travelocity's Roaming Gnome advertising campaign which was launched in January 2004. [17]
Among Gnomes and Trolls (Swedish: Bland tomtar och troll), is a popular Swedish folklore and fairy tales annual and children's fairy tale anthology published since 1907. One of the most noted of the early illustrators is artist John Bauer .
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Lutin is generally translated into English as: brownie, elf, fairy, gnome, goblin, hobgoblin, imp, leprechaun, pixie, puck, jetin or sprite. [2] It sometimes takes the form of a horse saddled ready to ride, and in this shape is called Le Cheval Bayard. [3] Lutins sometimes tangle people's or horses' hair into elf-locks. [3]
The tale was published by the Brothers Grimm in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen in 1812, and slightly modified in the second edition issued in 1819. Their sources were the Hassenpflug family from Hanau, supplemented by Ludowine Haxthausen and by Wilhelm Grimm's friend and future wife, Dorothea Wild.