Editing Gnome (section)

===Praetorius===
[[File:Praetorius(1668)-p0000-02Bergmännerlein Wichtelin Unter-Irrdische.jpg|thumb|''Bergmännerlein'', Wights, and Subterraneans (''Unter-Irrdische''){{right|{{small|―engraving by Thomas Cross, Sr. (fl. 1632-1682), frontispiece to Praetorius (1668) [1666] ''Anthropodemus Plutonicus''.}}}}]]

[[Johannes Praetorius (writer)|Johannes Praetorius]] in ''Anthropodemus Plutonicus'' (1666) devotes a chapter of considerable length to the beings he calls {{lang|de|Bergmännrigen}} or {{lang|de|Erdleute}} "earth people", and follows Agricola to a large extent. Thus he considers earth spirits to be of two types, one more evil and sinister looking. The other, more benevolent and known as ''bergmännlein'' or ''kobolde''. He gives the measurement of what he calls the {{lang|de|Bergmännrigen}} at "drey viertel einer Ellen lang",<ref>{{harvp|Praetorius|1666|p=142}};  {{harvp|Praetorius|1668|p=129}}</ref><ref name="williams2017"/> perhaps shy of one and a half feet.{{efn|Williams calculates to "half a foot" which must be off, perhaps 3/4 misread as 1/4.}}

The mention of  ''kobolde'' here as a name for the underground spirit is an unresolved contradiction to Praetorius dedicating a wholly separate chapter on the kobold as house sprite<ref>{{harvp|Praetorius|1666|pp=359–379}};  {{harvp|Praetorius|1668|pp=311–326}} "VIII. Von Hausmännern, Laribus, Penatibus, Geniis, Kobolden, Stepgen, Ungethümen, Larven, Haussgötzen, Gütgen".</ref> with a separate frontispiece art labeled "8. Haußmänner/Kobolde/Gütgen" for the house spirits.<ref>"[[:File:Praetorius(1668)-p0000-08haußmänner-kobolde-gütgen.jpg|8. Haußmänner/Kobolde/Gütgen]]"</ref>