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21 Nov 2010, 12:40 pm
You are correct.
I just have to ask... since you said it was in the night, did you see it, both times, after waking up? If so, do you recall if you were unable to move? If this was the case, the likely reason to you seeing it was simply mere sleep paralysis; sleep paralysis tends to lead to "hallucinations", since you're partially still asleep when you have it.
If, however, this was not the case, and you never hallucinate in your normal state of mind, then that makes it rather interesting. If it cannot have been sleep paralysis, would you then like to think through those events as well as you can, and describe the situations when it happened in as much detail as possible? I would be very interested to read about it. I'm especially interested since a close acquaintance of my mother insists that she's seen a gnome in a forest, close by, and my mother means she does not seem crazy in any way. Gnomes are called "småtomtar" in Swedish, though... or småtomte in singular... poorly translated, that'd be small santa in English... tomte and santa have different cultural pasts, though ("santa" is based on a person -_-;). In Swedish, they are also called tomtenisse and hustomte (hus = house). Hustomtar are somewhat different, though...
I remain sceptical, though... :B but if you can't be a bit open-minded, you will live a very dull life. I find it interesting that they culturally are so widely spread, with different names for them and all.
Gnomes actually also are another of my favourite mythical creatures, beside the fairies and dragons. Fairies are the best, though.
I'd be very skeptical myself, TBH. I think if I heard someone saying this I'd just dismiss them as crazy or having had a hallucination. It wasn't sleep paralysis. I could move just fine and leapt back both times. Ugh. I don't want to seem like a nut. I just know what I saw. I'm not one of these people who's waiting with bated breath for the aliens to come or anything like that. I've never mixed up fantasy and reality.
And sort of like how you mentioned the occurrence across cultures, one of my afterthoughts was "huh. Well, what was he doing all the way over here?". We don't have gnomes in American lore as far as I know.
All I know is I want nothing to do with gnomes after that.
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Imagine trying to have it as a pet, and feeding that thing 
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My Favorite Mythical Creature was killed, then he returned from the dead, and set up shop consuming the brains of his ever expanding army of drones:
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I'll 1UP you
Hey kids, IT'S SANTA CHRIST!!!4
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Tiamat
In Babylonian mythology, Tiamat is a chaos monster,
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23 Nov 2010, 3:28 pm
Sköll - Hati - Fenris
In Norse mythology, Sköll ("Treachery") is a wolf that chases the horses Árvakr and Alsviðr, that drag the chariot which contains the sun through the sky every day, trying to eat her. Sköll has a brother, Hati, who chases Máni, the moon. At Ragnarök, both Sköll and Hati will succeed in their quests after which Fenris will break free from his bonds and kill Odin.
[img][800:540]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/The_Wolves_Pursuing_Sol_and_Mani.jpg[/img]
^ Sköll and Hati chasing the sun and the moon.
^ Fenris and Odin
28 Nov 2010, 4:45 pm
Scylla---Scylla was a horrible sea monster with four eyes, six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail and with four to six dog-heads ringing her waist.
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