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The Duende is a humanoid figure of folklore, with variations from Iberian, Ibero American, and Latin American cultures, comparable to dwarves, gnomes, or leprechauns.
Duendecitos by Francisco Goya, 1799
Model of a duende
Dwarf (folklore)
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A dwarf is a type of supernatural short human-shaped being in Germanic folklore. Accounts of dwarfs vary significantly throughout history. They are commonly, but not exclusively, presented as living i
Duende
…The Duende is a humanoid figure of folklore, with variations from Iberian, Ibero American, and Latin American cultures, comparable to dwarves, gnomes, or leprechauns. In Castilian, duende originated as a contraction of the phrase dueñ(o) de casa, effectively "master of the house", or…
Two dwarves as depicted in a 19th-century edition of the Poetic Edda poem Völuspá (1895) by Lorenz Frølich
Siegfried wrestling Alberich, by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Face of the Heysham hogback stone depicting four figures with upraised arms, which have been interpreted as the dwarfs Norðri, Suðri, Austri and Vestri holding up the sky
The Ribe skull fragment, dating to the 8th century CE, bearing a protective charm against either one or two dwarfs