Elementals. Elementals are small creatures that have dedicated purpose.
the personification of the Elements. Earth = Gnomes, Fire = Salamanders (Some books have said they are fire spirits some have said they are the lizards..) Water = Undines (Mermaids and Mermen), Air = Sylphs. For Grecco-Romans they are the 4 Winds, and for Ceremonials they are the 4 Archangels.
Primal creatures that consist solely of their own element; possibly inhabitants of their respective elemental planes.
Creatures that evolved in the Four Elements - earth (gnomes), air (sylphs), water (undines), and fire (salamanders). These forces of nature are known as Pixies, Gnomes, Fauns, Elves, Dwarfs, Trolls, Norns, Kobolds, Brownies, Nixies, Goblins, Pinkies, Banshees, Moss People, White Ladies, Spooks, Faeries, etc.
A creature associated with a given element. For example, Gnomes are Earth elementals, Sylphs are Air elementals.
Archetypical spirit beings associated with one of the four elements. Elementals are sometimes called Faeries.
The Spirits of the Elements; the creatures involved in the four kingdoms, or elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Except a few of the higher kinds and their rulers they are forces of nature more than ethereal men and women.
In magical tradition and ceremony, spirits which govern the four corners of the earth and are associated with, or reside within, the four basic elements. They are called Sylphs (the east, air), Salamanders (the south, fire), Undines (the west, water), and Gnomes (the north, earth).
Archetypical beings associated with each of the four elements.
Spirits of the earth. Elementals are benign, almost angelic spirits who watch over the four elements, air-sylphs, earth-gnomes, fire-salamanders, and water nymphs. Also, lesser spirits of nature are called undines.
Forces of nature that witches believe they can control. There are five: earth, wind, fire, water, and spirit. (Children learned about these through Pocahontas and Captain Planet.)
Air fire, water, earth and ether. The term also can be used to describe the non-corporeal entities which are associated with the elements.
creatures associated with the elements. Gnomes with the earth, Sylphs with the air, Salamanders with Fire, and Undines with Water.
Spiritualists commonly refer to this term to describe mean or angry spirits sometimes also called “Earth Spirits”.
the spirits of lower life-forms such as viruses, bacteria, crustaceans, insects or arachnids. Not intentionaly evil, but some can be very detrimental if they infect or infest the spiritual body of a higher life-form such as a human.