Tomte, 520020P

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Scandinavian Specialties
22″ Sitting Tomte

Hi, I am a sitting 22″ Tomte. I have bendable arms so you can easily pose me. I am wearing a grey plaid hat and my hat is wired so it can be posed in many positions and my legs are soft so you can pose them also…

A Tomte is a mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore. The Tomte is believed to take care of a farmer’s home and children and protect them from misfortune, especially at night while the housefolk are asleep.

The Tomte is still often pictured on Christmas cards and house and garden decorations as the little man of Jenny Nyström’s imagination, often with a horse or cat, or riding on a goat or in a sled pulled by a goat, and for many people the idea of the Tomte still lives on, if only in the imagination and literature.