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The Sword of Gilead & The Book of Angels

different forms interchangeably. The Paracelsian
elementals were: Of these names, "gnomus",
"undina", and "sylph" are all thought to have
appeared first in Paracelsus' works, though
"undina" is a fairly obvious Latin derivative. The
other names are traditional terms, though the
Paracelsian usage is thought to be novel. - He
noted that undines are similar to humans in size,
while sylphs are rougher, bigger, longer, and
stronger. Gnomes are short, while salamanders
are long, narrow, and lean.

In his influential "De Occulta Philosophia" of the
same period, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa also
wrote of four classes of spirits corresponding to
the four elements, though he did not give special
names for the classes. Agrippa did, however, give
an extensive list of various mythological beings of
this type, although without clarifying which
belongs to which elemental class.

Asmodeus evil spirit, prince of demons, from
Latin. Asmodaeus, from Greek. Asmodaios, from
Talmudic Hebrew. Ashmeday, from Avestan
Aeshma-dæva, "Aeshma the deceitful," from aeshma
"anger," daeva- "spirit, demon."

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