Note 6 — FIENDS, GHOSTS, AND SPRITES.

"Vain indeed is the life of all men in whom there is not the true knowledge of God: who, from the things which are seen to be good, have not been able to conceive aright of that which is goodness itself; nor, while they viewed the work, to acknowledge the architect: but have thought that either fire, or the wind, the swift air, or the stars in their courses, or the vast deep, or the sun and moon, were the deities presiding over the world."—Liber Sapientiæ, ch. 13, v. 1, 2. Translation by Luke Howard, F.R.S.