Editing Gnome (section)

====Demonology====
Agricola has a passage in ''Bermanus'' which is quoted by a modern scholar as relevant to the study of his contemporary Paracelsus.<ref name="koelsch-2013"/> The passage contains the line{{Refn|Just below mention of the mine "Corona rosacea", writes: "Eius generis demonum, quod in metallis esse solet, inter reliqua, sex (6) enim numerat, Psellus mentionem fecit,.. cæteris peius" (worse than the rest).<ref name="agricola1546"/>}} basically repeated by Olaus, as "there exist in ore-bearing regions six kinds of demon more malicious than the rest".<ref name="olaus"/><ref name="olaus-eng"/>

This is probably misstated or misleading, since ''Bermanus'' cites [[Michael Psellos|Psellus]],<ref name="agricola1546"/> who devised a [[classification of demons#Psellus' classification|classification of six demon classes]], where clearly it is not all six, but just the fifth class of subterranean demons which are relevant to mining.<ref name="hibbert1825"/>

This demon class is also equatable to Agricola's  Cobali and "Getuli" (recté "Guteli"){{Refn|"Guteli" was Agricola's spelling, thus "Getuli" is not faithful to it. However, ''gitulius'' (var. ''getulius, gaetulius'') as syn. ''kobolt'' is attested,{{sfnp|Grimm|Stallybrass tr.|1883|p=502}} so the learned Englishmen were perhaps providing the correct standard Latin.}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|name="gitulius"}} according to commentators.<ref name="hibbert1825"/><ref name="burton-anatomy1621"/>

It has also been noted that Agricola distinguished the "mountain devil", exemplified by [[Rübezahl]] with the small-statured ''Bergmännlein''.<ref name="ernsting1994"/> Although the popular notion was that Rübezahl was indeed lord of the gnomes, as told in folktales around the Risengibirge ([[Giant Mountains]]) region in Silesia, published by 18th century folktale collector [[Johann Karl August Musäus|Musäus]].<ref name="musaeus1845"/>

Agricola explaining that the "mine demon" {{lang|la|dæmon metallicus}} or "{{lang|de|Bergmenlin}}" somehow deposited "rich mines" was mentioned above.<ref name="agricola1546-gloss-zech"/>