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Nisse/Tomte: Notes on the traditions of Christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | The tomte was often imagined as a small, elderly man (exact size varies from a few inches to about half the height of an adult man) with a full beard, gray or white; dressed in ordinary, gray clothing, whith the exeption of a bright-red knitted cap. |
| | Despite his smallness, the tomte possessed an immense strength, and even though he was protective and caring, he was easy to offend, and his retributions ranged from a stout box on the ears to the killing of livestock. |
| | When the tomte of his farmstead found that the butter was missing, he went straight on and killed all the cattle resting in the barn. |
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