Definition of "elementals" [elementals]

• Plural form of elemental. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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.""
• "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.""