Tonttu

nature_spirit earth Finnish single tradition · 2

Tonttu are house spirits found in Finland. They are examples of house spirits that European cultures retained into the modern period.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

Relationships

co occurs with: Húsvættir, gardvord, tunkall, Lares, domovoy, Brownie, duende, hobgoblins, Kobold, Goblin, nisse, Tomte

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Mentioned by

Lares
domovoy
Brownie
duende
hobgoblins
Kobold
Goblin
nisse
Tomte

Sources

wikipedia (2)

Household deity
Nisse (folklore)

Source passages

“Tonttu (Finnish)”
#9594 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Finnish tonttu is also borrowed from Swedish tomte, but 'later tradition no longer consider these identical'.”
#10310 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5