hey what do people know much about nomes? i hhave this crazy story about one. when i was yonug, my grandmother told me a story about one time when she was litt,e she was waiting for her fatyher to get home from work, she was looking out the window, towards this garden that was in her backyard. igt wzs like picking stuff from her garden or somehting, and it saw her, and ran away. she still to this day swears its a true story./ what do you guys think?

it was probably just a smurf. was her neighbor's name Gargamel?

DS is probably right. Was it blue? If not, but it had a beard it may have been a gnome. If it had a beard and an axe, then it may have been a dwarf. But if it had no beard but had hairy feet then it was likely a hobbit. Did she see if the thing had pointy ears? If so then it may have been an elf or halfling. But not all halfling have pointed ears. They don't have beards, either. Nor are they blue. Coulda been a mite, too, but only if it had bad breath, but I don't think your grandma got that close to it.

Hope that helps

*lol* DS & Shadeaux

I'm afraid the only gnomes I've ever seen are small, made of plastic and sit in plant pots or at the bottom of your garden.

There have been many stories about people seeing the little people, they are usually small and not transparent or anything.

The encounters of faery people Gnomes, Sprites, Pixies, and the like usually refer to early alien sightings.

noo shes pretty serious, ill have to ask her for specfic details, but she said it was very very small, not ahobbit or any of that stuff. no it was not a smurf! she said it had a long beard too. gotta love my crazy swedish grandma:)

according to myth, gnomes have skull caps on their heads. and no beards, that is the trademark of a faery dwarf.

perhaps i will have to inform her baout this change in this odd creatures species:P

I agree with SaRuMan...sometimes young children's imaginations can be very large and a lawn gnome, or possibly a small dog could turn into something completely different...it was picking stuff out of her garden eh?...maybe it was a small gardener of Incan descent...

um only the ones they sell in the garden center sorry thats certianly something not everyone can say they have seen

Have a look at the book (remember them?) 'Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries' (1911) by W. Y. Evanz Wentz.

You have to be impressed at the man's research, if nothing else.

elves are slender, with a greenish tint to their skin and pointed ears. (acording to my sources..ie RPG's). and hobbits are the same as halflings.

heheh.......gnomes make me laugh.

was this in norht carliona a similar incedent happend a boy was walking and saw a little man the size of like a coke bottle decided to turn around and looked in its poket then squeaked thne ran away creapy

didnt think gnomes were that small

QUOTE (UFOlogist @ Jun 19 2003, 11:58 PM)

was this in norht carliona a similar incedent happend a boy was walking and saw a little man the size of like a coke bottle decided to turn around and looked in its poket then squeaked thne ran away creapy

Okay....none of that made any sense to me........am I the only one??

QUOTE (skalra63 @ Jun 20 2003, 01:58 PM)

didnt think gnomes were that small

by the way, how many gnomes have you seen?

i have seen none. but they arnt supposed to be tiny, are they.

I have always thought that Fairies are about the size of your hand, gnomes are a bit bigger the size of a 2 litre bottle, elves are human sized. But thats just me.

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if that was real ... I wish to see one too

i don't believe in gnomes. maybe it was a midgit checking out your grandmom.

Seriously, people mistake it as just thier imagination , most oftenly when children see it, their stories are dismissed as illusions. But as how most of the gnome stories i read about, only children can see gnomes and not because that they would be likelier to mistaken an animal or a shadow as one at first glance, but because even in the presence of adults, the gnome sare invisible to the adult eye.Of course there are exceptions.

The Phillipines is a very superstitous and supernatural place.My mom has seen enough ghosts to be able to tell me a story everyday.

The gnomes shes seen, she saw in her childhood and no adults ever believed her.

LOL Aliensama

I do have a book written by Rien Poortvliet, an deceased Dutch writter, that is like an biology book about the Carboteris, Latin word for gnome.
You should look it up sometime, it's published in 20 different languages.

It describes the living paterns of gnomes, a bit of there hystorie and where they live. (Scandinavia is a gnome hotspot btw)

I'm not saying that they are real, but it is a nice subject and an interesting book.

my mum saw one when we were in west wales- i didnt see him but she mad my dad turn car round and go back for a second look - she described him as a little 'squatty dwarf' (hehe) who was white skinned with a beard and appeared to be having a sh*t. like i said though i didnt see him, and he wasnt there when we went back

I live in the land of the little people. Never seen one myself however. Can you say "folklore"?

HEY!!!!! i didnt say i saw him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my mum is a bit odd come to think of it...?

My friend was telling me about how his grandmother saw one when she was little. It actually WAS blue though (I'm serious, this is what he told me). It even had a name (it was in Italian, since this sighting was in Italy), which I totally can't spell/pronounce even though I'm Italian too.

Anyway, after I heard this, I was 100% skeptical, and then I asked my (also Italian) grandparents, if they'd heard of anything like it, and they shocked the hell out of me and AGREED.

They talked about it like it was common place, and it was a "spirit" or a "saint" or something.

Weeeeeeeird.

Well the idea of gnomes was origonally descended from trolls, I beleive.

But come to think of it, I really have little knowledge of the subject, so will promtly do some research.

Gnome! *dun dun dun*

I HATE Gnomes they have always given me the creeps! not that i have seen a little person before, though i wish not too. like said before most early fairy, elves, and Gnomes etc sightings are similar to today's alien sightings. is there a connection? there is one middle ages tradition, it was when women would dangle a knife over the baby's cardle (by string etc) to stop "elves" taking them and replacing them with "elf" babies. truely strange.