"tomte" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 147:",
          "text": "In Sweden the Tomte is sometimes seen at noon, in summer, slowly and stealthily dragging a straw or an ear of corn. [...] Any one who treated the industrious Tomte with respect, and set store by the smallest straw, became rich, and neatness and regularity prevailed in his household.",
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