Garden gnomes are considered evil spirits taking the form of one foot tall old men, they wear little caps overalls a assortment of pants or shorts and plaid shirts. They will break into people homes and steal small things like toys money socks or even pets, they are only active during the night, during the day they will be completely still. Garden gnomes are known to also kill small children of people who attack garden gnomes, the garden gnomes will take the bodies and dress them up as Garden gnomes as a form of mockery.
A exert from a farmer
"Those little annoying basterds broke into my house and ate my bread and drank my whiskey, then they had the gaul to puke on my table"
A exert from a villager
"Those little rats killed Tom's cat last night and wrote gnome garbage all over his wall as well"
A exert from a town gaurd
"We keep getting reports about the gnomes but we can't do anything about them, as soon as we do more gnomes will show up and will start killing kids, gnomes are spiteful little dicks, I watched one take a crap on someone porch just for looking at it"