The Origin of the Gnomes

The gnomes appear for the first time, in the Half Age, XIV and XV centuries, among the Jewish cabalists who affirmed that these fantastic petty characters, lived under the earth, the same as the midgets.

Although they already existed in the oral tradition of Celtic, Viking and German, Talmud (sacred book of the Jews), allocates them the task of guarding hidden treasures.

In this book it is counted, among other things that a gnome with worm form lent services to the king Salomón, extracting rocks of the quarries for the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem.

It is defined to the gnomes like intermediate beings between the man and the spirits; they have an intermediate" "earth as residence place; with trees, plants and rocks. These petty beings assume the features of the locus in quo they live. All save features in common: they are old of petty, grotesque and thin body; and their mandible is prominent.