{Gnome}[15th October 1990]

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#gnome, in European folklore, dwarfish, subterranean goblin or earth-spirit** who guards mines of precious treasure hidden in the earth. He is represented in mediaeval mythologies as a small, physically deformed (usually hunchbacked) creature resembling a dry, gnarled old man.*** Gob, the king of the gnome race, ruled with a magic sword**** and is said to have influenced the melancholic temperament# of man.

‘The term was popularised through works of the 16th-century Swiss alchemist Paracelsus in which gnomes were described as capable of moving through solid earth #* as fish move through water.’

– E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 5:314ff

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