wood-spirits

Presumably both have magnets which would be affected while Justine's trippy, electric hand-trails are perhaps more evidence of Von Trier's recent episode in pharmacopoeia, perhaps while watching the wood-spirits in Avatar?

Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012

They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay, and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes.

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

They were talking to each other loudly as if to keep lurking wood-spirits at bay, and I did vividly remember that teenage spooky feeling of being alone in wild woodland and at the mercy of supernatural eyes.

Longshot Francis, Dick 1990

Night, with torches and lanterns, and make a great noise with horns, bells, whips, &c., in order to | 342 | frighten away two wood-spirits.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

On the whole, then, as Mannhardt argues, the Pans, Satyrs, and Fauns perhaps belong to a widely diffused class of wood-spirits conceived in goat-form.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922

The fondness of goats for straying in woods and nibbling the bark of trees, to which indeed they are most destructive, is an obvious and perhaps sufficient reason why wood-spirits should so often be supposed to take the form of goats.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922

Thus, the Russian wood-spirits, called Ljeschie (from ljes, “wood”), are believed to appear partly in human shape, but with the horns, ears, and legs of goats.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922

In order to propitiate the wood-spirits people bring offerings of food, fowls, goats, and so forth to the places which they are supposed to haunt.

Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 1. Tree-spirits 1922

Thus the representation of wood-spirits in the form of goats appears to be both widespread and, to the primitive mind, natural.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922

Similarly the Fauns, though wood-spirits, were believed to foster the growth of the crops.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 1922