elementals

The most obvious example of a mediæval animistic belief is that in "elementals" -- the spirits which personify the primordial forces of Nature, and are symbolised by the four elements, immanent in which they were supposed to exist, and through which they were held to manifest their powers.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

Anger's "personal visions seem obsessed with the idea of transformation, a concept that links his fascinations with glamour, monsters and ambivalent primal creatures akin to the mythological 'elementals' of his later work."

GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 1/24. 2007

If this should be the case -- and it is no fantastic hypothesis -- we are then provided with an explanation of the curious malignant impishness of those so-called "elementals" who tease, with their enigmatic oracles, the minds of unwise dabblers in "psychic manifestations."

The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

It seems to have had some connection with Jewish legends of magicians who invoked the _Satanim_, or lowest grade of elemental spirits not unlike the "elementals" of modern popular spiritualism.

Among Famous Books John Kelman 1896

In the golden age before this Kaliyuga men were on the whole less selfish and more spiritual, and then the "elementals" were friendly, though now they are no longer so because of man's indifference to, and want of sympathy with, other living beings.

The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena 1890

Anger's "personal visions seem obsessed with the idea of transformation, a concept that links his fascinations with glamour, monsters and ambivalent primal creatures akin to the mythological 'elementals' of his later work."

GreenCine Daily 2009

But I had hoped to get the elementals into his line of sight before he freaked.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

Another consequence of that battle was the myriad elementals—unicorns, griffons, dragons, phoenixes—now grouped in the wooded grove behind my house.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

Before calling the elements to guard us I corrected my wording to invoke the “spirit of the elements” and not the elementals themselves.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

I leave your wards and even the elementals, as you are evidently accomplishing their house and, I assume, their care.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011