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Originally posted by auraelium
Later tribes who came to Ireland saw these little men crawling in and out of holes in the ground and believing that the holes were entrances to the underworld they formed the lepruchan mythology around them.
The Firbolg were, we know from archeology excellent goldsmiths.collecting local gold from rivers and streams to make beautifully crafted gold jewelery.So this is probably where the mythology that if you captured a lepruchan he would lead you to a crock of gold, comes from.
Originally posted by IIIiIIIIIIiIII
Originally posted by Bspiracy
Originally posted by IIIiIIIIIIiIII
I'm sure your sarcasm played off with "seriously though" may feel from superiorly all knowing and safe place, but it makes you sound like an @ss.
You're calling me an @ss for not believing in dwarves that live under the ground? Does that make me a super-fool for not believing in Santa Claus? Because I've met him a few times in my life.
Originally posted by KeRsHaN
The scary thing about it is that people claim that witchdoctors abduct infants
Originally posted by BlackPoison94
There is a mention of dwarves in the Hindu culture...Vishnu's 5th avatar, who appeared in the Tretayuga in order to destroy Bali (the King of the demons.)
The miners of these very early years paid a heavy price for their labors. A quote from Agricola’s publication De Re Metallica gives us a feel for the conditions in the mines and the miners fate, “the dust has corrosive qualities, it eats away the lungs and implants consumption in the body… Women are found who have married seven husbands, all of whom have this terrible consumption has carried off to a premature death.” The miners themselves called this disease “Bergsucht” or “Mountain Sickness.” The miners attributed it to sub-terranean dwarfs. Others attributed it to metallic vapors. It would not be until 1879 that malignant tumors of the lung were found to be the cause of death, and it would be into the 1920’s and 30’s when radioactivity in the mines was believed to be the cause of the tumors.
Originally posted by cheftim59
reply to post by Skyfloating
Where I live people really belief and fear dwarfs. We have big termite dens that the locals say is the home of the dwarf. If you damage the termite nest the dwarfs will do some sort of harm. My wife is a Filipina and swears that they are real and tells me she was visited by them as a child. Sometimes when I misplace my keys or something else I wont be able to find she tells me the dwarfs are using it. And funny enough a few days later they will turn up in a place I already looked. So I must say although I have never seen them, I am sure they exist. I cant see the air I breath but I know its there.