How come short fantasy peoples are so often associated with gold?

>>3243321
>Greediness=bad
>Shortness=bad

Where does gold come from? Mines, mostly.
Who'd be great miners? Short people, because they don't need big tunnels.

Pretty sure those three examples are all related. If you look at other small mythological creatures, they weren't associated with gold/jewels, whereas other creatures are. I think the more relevant characteristic is living underground. For example, Hades is associated with wealth in Greco-Roman mythology (where the prefix "Pluto" even means wealth).

>>3243321
Jews

>>3243378
This, the creature often associated with gold are also the one associated with the underground, gnome were earth elemental, dwarfs lived underground etc..

>>3243321
I feel like that's because of anti-Semitic beliefs in Europe.

In sub Saharan Africa little people are connected to deep forms of knowledge and magic

>>3243321
>peoples

not a word

>>3243862
It's a plural noun or 3rd person present

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>>3243321
accurate

>>3243862
Are you retarded?

>>3243874
no it isn't

>>3243321
>dragons
>giant ants

Leprechauns don't have any special connection to gold like gnomes or dwarves, they just looted battlefields and the gold is a representation of their wealth gained by doing that.

>>3243887
keep making up shit, you fake atheist retard

>>3243862
t. me in 2nd grade

>>3243968
>Leprechauns don't have any special connection to gold

What did he mean by this

>>3244014
They don't, in earlier Irish stories their wealth manifested as cattle or fine clothes, the gold stuff came later.

>>3243948
verb
3rd person present: peoples
1.
(of a particular group of people) inhabit (an area or place).
"an arid mountain region peopled by warring clans"
synonyms: populate, settle (in), colonize, inhabit, live in, occupy; More