Note 1 — Chapter V · Magic Rites connected with the Several Departments of Nature

With the above are often associated the Polong, which is described as a diminutive but malicious species of bottle-imp, and the Pĕlĕsit, which is the name given to a kind of grasshopper (or cricket?), but these latter, though often associated with the regular birth-spirits, partake also of the character of familiar spirits1 or bottle-imps, and are usually private property.