- gnome, dwarf - a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
--1 is a kind of fairy, faery, faerie, sprite
--1 has particulars: Nibelung; Andvari - gnome - a short pithy saying expressing a general truth
--2 is a kind of maxim, axiom
--2 has particulars: Murphy's Law, Sod's Law