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You Have Entered The Secret World of Gnomes...enter this area with an open mind and an open heart and they will allow you to see their lives. They are very little creatures with very big hearts. Respect them, for they were here long before man. Enter with a clouded mind and heart, and they will hide themselves from you...
There are male and female gnomes. In our daily lives, we come in contact with the male, because the female almost always stays at home.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF A GNOME
The adult male gnome weighs about 300 grams, the adult female gnome weighs about 250-275 grams. The average height of a gnome is 15 cm.
THE CAP
Deserves an extra explanation. It is made of felt and is solid from its tip to the top of the head (see cutaway drawing, left) .The gnome never removes it except in darkness before going to bed and probably (although we have not seen this for ourselves) when taking a bath. A gnome without a cap is not a gnome, and he knows it.
Some folklorists insist that the cap has the power to render a gnome invisible, but if this is so, it is not its principal function. Rather, it is an indispensable head covering, protection against such unsuspected blows from above as are dealt by falling twigs, acorns, or hailstones, and against attacks by animals of prey. (Interestingly, just as a lizard will surrender its tail in order to escape, so the gnome will give up his cap to a marauding cat.)
The gnome reveals his individuality as much with his cap as with the shape of his nose. A gnome child receives a cap at a very tender age and keeps it throughout life. Because it is seldom removed, wear and tear on the cap is considerable, and with great care new layers of felt are periodically added to the outside. This work is done every few years with the help of a form molded in the exact shape of the gnome's head.
Gnome working at Cap form, a job that he hates!! It is tedious work. But he would rather be without his pants than without his cap.
GNOME HOUSES
Gnome houses differ in style and location, depending on the area where they are built. The woodland and garden gnomes live under large, old trees. The dune gnome makes use of renovated rabbit holes or else houses himself under pine-tree roots. If sand drifts expose parts of his house he covers them with pine-cone scales.
In earlier days, when the subsoil water in the dunes was higher, large pine trees produced grapefruit-size pine cones, and their scales made excellent roof tiles. Unfortunately, these trees exist now only in limited numbers.
Although the house gnome may have his residence in a garden, he can nestle down just as well between the walls of a house. The farm gnome may live under the hay stack--but here he must always be on the lookout for polecats. He sometimes resides in one of the supply sheds on a farm or under sloping planks or poles leaning against farmhouse walls--which through neglect sometimes remain in that position for twenty years. But owing to the danger of a polecat, cat, or rat, farm gnomes usually choose a well-built little house and make their home under the roof tiles, or somewhere in the stables.
RELATIONSHIP WITH ANIMALS
Obviously, gnomes maintain close contact with animals. They are, shall we say, on the sane wave length.
This means of course, that the gnomes speak their language and understand their problems. All animals - even the troublesome ones such as the polecat, rat, etc. - feel safe with the gnome and are trusted by him. The cat, however, remains an exception - especially the wild domestic cat, who is not a member of the natural animal world and i completely unreliable.
Gnome are often sought out by even such large animals as the wolf, lynx, bear, fox, and wild boar (who are by no means favorites). They know wear to find the gnome when they need him. In return, they usually do his bidding without sulking.
Indeed, the gnome is indispensable to the animal world. His intellect and technical skills allow him to do things that animals are incapable of doing themselves.
Foxes and other animals can become irritated by ticks embedded in the skin on their heads or other areas difficult for them to reach. When they try to scrape the tick away against a tree, the insect' s head remains under the skin, causing inflammation. The gnome waits until the tick is sleeping, then he twists it out quickly in counterclockwise direction.
Age
29
Hometown
Yougal,Ireland
Country
Ireland
Occupation
Professional Gnome Hunter.
Companies
G-corp.
Interests
GNOME HUNTING
TheGnomeHunt
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