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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9817253" data-attributes="member: 58172">The nisse is in the &quot;house sprite&quot; family, like brownie and hob.Nisse is a nickname, like Robin Goodfellow is. The proper name for the phenomenon is &quot;tomt&quot; (tompt, topt, tuft), literally a &quot;property&quot; of land. It is literally the animistic mind of the earth that a home is built on. A place has a presence, sometimes an interactive one.The German kobold is also a house sprite. But the English goblin isnt. The goblin is a malicious sprite, unlike a brownie that is protective house sprite. (Tho sometimes the German kobold can be malicious, more like a goblin.)The Latin term &quot;gnomus&quot; probably derives from Greek ge-nomos, literally a &quot;division of land&quot;, a field. Hence it means the same thing as Norse tomt. In any case, the Latin term is normally used to translate the folkbeliefs about house sprites, from various languages.Gnome is a house sprite, moreso than an earth elemental per se.The Norse tomt, Scottish brownie, English hob, German kobold, are all Gnomes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 9817253, member: 58172"] The nisse is in the "house sprite" family, like brownie and hob. Nisse is a nickname, like Robin Goodfellow is. The proper name for the phenomenon is "tomt" (tompt, topt, tuft), literally a "property" of land. It is literally the animistic mind of the earth that a home is built on. A place has a presence, sometimes an interactive one. The German kobold is also a house sprite. But the English goblin isnt. The goblin is a malicious sprite, unlike a brownie that is protective house sprite. (Tho sometimes the German kobold can be malicious, more like a goblin.) The Latin term "gnomus" probably derives from Greek ge-nomos, literally a "division of land", a field. Hence it means the same thing as Norse tomt. In any case, the Latin term is normally used to translate the folkbeliefs about house sprites, from various languages. Gnome is a house sprite, moreso than an earth elemental per se. The Norse tomt, Scottish brownie, English hob, German kobold, are all Gnomes. [/QUOTE]

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