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The Kabouter (Dutch pronunciation: [kaːˈbʌutər] ⓘ) is a gnome-like creature in Dutch folklore. The Dutch Kabouters are akin to the Irish Leprechaun , Scandinavian Tomte or Nisse, the English Hob , [ 1 ] the Scottish Brownie [ 2 ] and the German Klabauter or kobold .
The book is written like a biology book, describing the habitat of the mythical creatures known as gnomes (Dutch: kabouter).In the book, Huygen and Poortvliet say they've spent at least twenty years observing them and call their study the "first work of consequence on the subject to be published since Wunderlich's bulky and dubious treatise De Hominibus Parvisimis appeared in 1580".
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The first book in his picture book series is Gnomes (published in 1977, and originally known as Leven en werken van de Kabouter in Dutch). It was on top of the bestseller list of the New York Times for over a year (as a book on folklore, it was categorized as non-fiction). [ 4 ]
Kabouter – (Dutch for gnome) short, strong workers. They build the first carillons (groups of bells) of the Netherlands – from The Kabouters and the Bells [19] Nuton - (Walloon for Kabouter but with similar linguistic roots to lutin). Nutons share the same origins as elves, but caves, caverns and underground tunnels form the bulk of their ...
Kyrië, the Kabouter king from folklore from the Campine, a region in the Dutch province of North Brabant. Gnome king Kyrië (Dutch: Kabouterkoning Kyrië, pronounced [kaːˈbʌutərˌkoːnɪŋ ˈkiːrijə]) is, according to local folklore, the leader of the legendary gnomes who lived in the Campine region of the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. [1]
Born in Schiedam, Poortvliet was best known for his drawings [2] of animals and for "Gnomes", a famous series of illustrated books with text by Wil Huygen. [3]Poortvliet did not attend art school and his family discouraged him from becoming an artist: `My family thought that artists were, you know, a little bit dangerous, all those naked women, all that drinking all night."
Paul Biegel was born in Bussum in 1925. His father, Hermann Biegel, was of German descent, and owned a building materials shop. With his wife Madeleine Povel-Guillot he had nine children, six girls and three boys, of whom Paul was the youngest.