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Posted 5-23-18

“A mythological elemental being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. The salamander is an amphibian. As with many real creatures, pre-modern authors often ascribed fantastic qualities to it, and in recent times some have come to identify a legendary salamander as a distinct concept from the real organism.

This idea is most highly developed in the occult. Where the two concepts can be distinguished, the legendary salamander is most often depicted much like a typical salamander in shape, with a lizard-like form, but it is usually ascribed an affinity with fire.”

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“Famous medieval German-Swiss chemist Paracelsus coined this term for female water sprites. An elemental is a mythological being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus.

In one story an Undine married a human man who vowed to love her with every breath he took, but when he was unfaithful, she cursed him to stop breathing in his sleep and die. He ultimately passed out from sheer exhaustion and suffocated.”

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“An air elemental known as Sylph is a mythological being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. He describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air.

In the Liber de Nymphis of the Philosophia Magna, Paracelsus discusses the characteristics of the elementals at length. Sylphs, he says, are rougher, coarser, taller, and stronger than humans. The elementals are said to be able to move through their own elements as human beings move through air. Because of this, sylphs are the closest to humans in his conception because they move through air like we do, while in fire they burn, in water they drown, and in earth, they get stuck.”

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“A earth elemental that first appears in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.

The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarfs and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.”

Description
Posted 5-23-18

“A mythological elemental being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. The salamander is an amphibian. As with many real creatures, pre-modern authors often ascribed fantastic qualities to it, and in recent times some have come to identify a legendary salamander as a distinct concept from the real organism.

This idea is most highly developed in the occult. Where the two concepts can be distinguished, the legendary salamander is most often depicted much like a typical salamander in shape, with a lizard-like form, but it is usually ascribed an affinity with fire.”

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“Famous medieval German-Swiss chemist Paracelsus coined this term for female water sprites. An elemental is a mythological being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus.

In one story an Undine married a human man who vowed to love her with every breath he took, but when he was unfaithful, she cursed him to stop breathing in his sleep and die. He ultimately passed out from sheer exhaustion and suffocated.”

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“An air elemental known as Sylph is a mythological being first appearing in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. He describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air.

In the Liber de Nymphis of the Philosophia Magna, Paracelsus discusses the characteristics of the elementals at length. Sylphs, he says, are rougher, coarser, taller, and stronger than humans. The elementals are said to be able to move through their own elements as human beings move through air. Because of this, sylphs are the closest to humans in his conception because they move through air like we do, while in fire they burn, in water they drown, and in earth, they get stuck.”

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“A earth elemental that first appears in the alchemical works of Paracelsus. He describes them as two spans high, very reluctant to interact with humans, and able to move through solid earth as easily as humans move through air.

The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarfs and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.”