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2. Forget elf on the shelf: how we fell for gnomes in our homes

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   Since Asda released a Christmas advert starring a gang of gnomes, searches for them on the supermarket’s website have shot up by 5,425 per cent. “Once people began listing the gnomes on sites ...

3. Nisse (folklore) - Wikipedia

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   A tomtenisse made of salt dough.A common Scandinavian Christmas decoration, 2004. Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish:, Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish:) is a household spirit from Nordic folklore which has always been described as a small human-like creature wearing a red cap and gray clothing, doing house and stable ...

4. Sulamith Wülfing - Wikipedia

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   Sulamith Wülfing (January 11, 1901 – 1989) was a German artist and illustrator.The author Michael Folz explains that Wülfing's art was a "realistic reflection of the world she lives in: she has seen the angels and elfin creatures of her paintings throughout her life."

5. Tomtarnas julnatt - Wikipedia

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   In pre-school and at school, the song has become popular, and is often dramatized during the Saint Lucy processions with children dressed up like Christmas gnomes, but the song can also be used as a finger game. During Saint Lucy processions, the Christmas gnomes often do their entrance to this song. The chorus are often heard loudly, because ...

6. Heinzelmännchen - Wikipedia

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   The little house gnomes are said to have done all the work of the citizens of Cologne during the night, so that the inhabitants of Cologne could be very lazy during the day. According to the legend, this went on until a tailor's wife got so curious to see the gnomes that she scattered peas onto the floor of the workshop to make the gnomes slip ...

7. Belsnickel - Wikipedia

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   Belsnickel (also known as Belschnickel, Belznickle, Belznickel, Pelznikel, Pelznickel, Bell Sniggle [1]) is a crotchety, fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer figure in the folklore of the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany along the Rhine, the Saarland, and the Odenwald area of Baden-Württemberg.