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Aeiirii, also known as a poltergeist, demon, elemental, tommyknocker, bucca, gremlin, domovoi, gnome, goblin, or kobold

Origin: this type of spirit has its origins in the most ancient human folklore, but the term Aeiirii first appears in the [[Carnacki]] supernatural detective stories of [[William Hope Hodgson]].

==Description==


Aeiirii are a type of non-human, incorporeal, invisible, generally malevolent spirit which can produce sound and other effects without fully materializing, and may even be able to manipulate solid objects - "the usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation".

In folklore and parapsychology, the related concept of a 'poltergeist' (German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors. They have traditionally been described as troublesome spirits who haunt a particular person instead of a specific location. Such alleged poltergeist manifestations have been reported in many cultures and countries for millennia.

The related concept of 'elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, but rather something that was never a human being, and probably never had a physical, corporeal form. The signs of a haunting by an elemental spirit are varied, but are associated with mental imbalance, confusion, disorientation, heightened emotion, generalized anxiety in their victims; violent mood swings, manic-depression, and even hysteria in their victims; mysterious sounds (like knockings and tappings); small objects that disappear or move (or sometimes appear/reappear) on their own; animals frightened or disturbed by the (unseen) spirits; disembodied (and typically bizarre, frightening, or alien) voices; peculiar and unexplainable smells, otherwise unexplainable malfunction of mechanical or technical devices due to tampering by the spirit;

These entities rarely manifest themselves in crowded, urban settings, and seem to instead prefer isolated, often natural settings, though they can attach themselves to specific human beings or objects and "ride" their hosts as the hosts move to a new setting, and occultists and other humans have noted that certain occult practices can deliberately or accidentally open the door to the spirit world and create a an elemental haunting. Most cultures have developed methods of sacrifice to such spirits in the form of small offerings or gifts of food, treasure, space in or near the home to occupy, etc. in a bid to placate the spirits and prevent them from disturbing humans. Others have developed rituals of exorcism crafted to drive such spirits away from locations, objects, and/or people.

==Heresies and Controversies==


==Keeper Notes==


==Associated Mythos Elements==
* tome: ''[[Sigsand Manuscript]]'' contains descriptions of the spirit obtained from "Ab-human Priests of the Raaee"
* tome: "[[The Saaamaaa Ritual]]" allegedly provides some relief or protection from oppression by these spirits
* cult: the [[Carnacki Institute]] has popularized the term
* cult: the [[Ab-human Priests of the Raaee]] seem to have had some special insight into the nature of these beings

==References==

* fiction: [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s [[Carnacki]] the Ghost-Finder stories, and [[Simon R. Green]]'s pastiche Ghost Finders series
* film: ''[[Judas Ghost (2015 film)]]''
* film: ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]''
* film: ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)]]'' and the [[Shirley Jackson]] novel of the same title the film was based on (in the reference to a rain of stones that supposedly fell on Eleanor's house as a child)

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−	~~Aeiirii, also known as a Terrors from Beyond, poltergeist, demon, elemental, tommyknocker, bucca, gremlin, domovoi, gnome, goblin, or kobold~~	+	#REDIRECT [[Elemental]]
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−	~~Origin: this type of spirit has its origins in the most ancient human folklore, but the term Aeiirii first appears in the~~ [[~~Carnacki]] supernatural detective stories of [[William Hope Hodgson]].~~
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−	~~==Description==~~
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−	"...as I stared, something began slowly to grow upon my sight - a moving shadow, a little darker than the surrounding shadows. I lost the thing amid the vagueness and for a moment or two I glanced swiftly from side to side, with a fresh, new sense of impending danger..." <br>— [[William Hope Hodgson]], "The Gateway of the Monster"
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−	"You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the <i>pure air</i> and the <i>blue sky</i>? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shewn you worlds that no other living men have seen? ...My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are — <i>very different</i>...."
−	~~<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]], "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]"~~
−	~~</blockquote>~~
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−	Generally malevolent but relatively harmless inhuman spirits normally incapable of, or possessing limited capacity for materialization into the physical world, capable at best of limited manipulation of solid objects. These entities rarely manifest themselves in crowded, urban settings, and seem to instead prefer isolated, often natural settings, though they can attach themselves to specific human beings or objects and "ride" their hosts as the hosts move to a new setting, and occultists and other humans have noted that certain occult practices can deliberately or accidentally open the door to the spirit world and create an elemental haunting. Most cultures have developed methods of sacrifice to such spirits in the form of small offerings or gifts of food, treasure, space in or near the home to occupy, etc. in a bid to placate the spirits and prevent them from disturbing humans. Others have developed rituals of exorcism crafted to drive such spirits away from locations, objects, and/or people.
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−	~~=== Aeiirii ===~~
−	Aeiirii are a type of non-human, incorporeal, physically invisible, generally malevolent spirit which can produce sound and other effects without fully materializing, and may even be able to manipulate solid objects - "the usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation". Aeiirii may be psychically visible to sensitive viewers, mediums, and psychics, might also be rendered temporarily visible through arcane technological means, and may also take on some shape in the [[Other Side\|Astral Plane]] and other outer worlds, typically in inhuman or quasi-human forms.
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−	"The usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation", inhuman spirits, so-called "ghosts" or "demons" which can affect the physical world but are not themselves composed of normal matter. Aeiiriii phenomena are dangerous; they can sometimes kill and may be able to interfere with a susceptible mind. The effects of Aeiirii manifestations can include physical damage, mental aberrations and hallucinations, and permanent damage to the psyche or even soul itself which may leave the victim mindless or insane - a fate which [[Carnacki]] regarded suicide preferable to. However, Aeiirii have definite limits to their power; in particular, they must materialise from a focus object, place, or person, are sometimes stopped by physical walls, and are usually stopped by such defences as the [[Electric Pentacle]], the [[Elder Sign (symbol)]], and more traditional forms of magical protection. Thomas [[Carnacki]] believed that some religious symbols helped; for instance, he employed among his defences bowls of "a certain water", apparently holy water.
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−	All evidence suggests that the Aeiirii manifestations (and the Saiitii phenomena described below) are often released or created by the human mind, rather than originating as human [[Ghost]]s; they might appear in such surreal forms as giant hands, invisible horses, mouths in stones, and the like. It is easy to assume a malevolent alien origin, but it is possible that they simply represent one aspect of a neutral force that powers such "positive" phenomena as magic, the [[Elder Gods\|Astarral entities]], and the [[Saaamaaa Ritual]], but is triggered in a destructive form by human malice.
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−	~~=== Poltergeist ===~~
−	In folklore and parapsychology, the related concept of a 'poltergeist' (German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors. Poltergeists are sometimes regarded by parapsychologists as "subconscious manifestations of pyschokinetic activity", but poltergeists have more traditionally been described as troublesome spirits who haunt a particular person instead of a specific location: this type of haunting is often associated with specific people, usually pre-teen girls, and can happen sporadically, with several occurrences perhaps recorded in a day, followed by up to weeks of inactivity. Such alleged poltergeist manifestations have been reported in many cultures and countries for millennia.
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−	~~=== Elemental Haunting, Gremlins ===~~
−	The related concept of 'elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, but rather something that was never a human being, and probably never had a physical, corporeal form. The signs of a haunting by an elemental spirit are varied, but are associated with mental imbalance, confusion, disorientation, heightened emotion, a sense of unease or generalized anxiety, violent mood swings, manic-depression, and even hysteria in their victims; mysterious sounds (like knockings and tappings, or strange tones or music with no apparent physical source); small objects that disappear or move (or sometimes appear/reappear) on their own; animals frightened or disturbed by the (unseen) spirits; disembodied (and typically bizarre, frightening, or alien) voices; peculiar and unexplainable smells, otherwise unexplainable malfunction of mechanical or technical devices due to tampering by the spirit; occasionally, they are reported by sensitive viewers as dark shapes of black animals or humanoid shadows seen briefly from the corner of the eye and similarly subjective manifestations (see [[Djinn]], [[Shadow People]]).
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−	~~=== Terror From Beyond ===~~
−	In the short story "[[From beyond (fiction)\|From Beyond]]", Lovecraft describes a host of unseen, inhuman shapes that co-exist with the physical human world, revealed in the light of a [[Tillinghast Resonator]], which might resemble the physical forms of beings otherwise seen only in astral form: "Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien, unknown entities. It likewise seemed that all the known things entered into the composition of other unknown things, and vice versa. Foremost among the living objects were great inky, jellyish monstrosities which flabbily quivered in harmony with the vibrations from the machine. They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that they overlapped; that they were semi-fluid and capable of passing through one another and through what we know as solids. These things were never still, but seemed ever floating about with some malignant purpose. Sometimes they appeared to devour one another, the attacker launching itself at its victim and instantaneously obliterating the latter from sight." In the story, the majority of these entities are near the bottom of a food chain that includes particularly dangerous predators, horrible to behold in the light of the Resonator, which, once attracted to the material plane, are capable of hunting and then feeding on human victims to the point of disintegration, resulting in mysterious disappearances; those entities that usually interact with the material world in the form of Poltergeists, Demons, and Inhuman/Elemental hauntings would seem to reside somewhere in the upper-middle or higher spans of this food chain as apex predators in their native environment, or even as intelligent (if thoroughly alien) beings.
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−	~~=== Tulpa ===~~
−	According to Tibetan, Theosophical, and Kabalistic magical theory, it is possible for a cultist or wizard to bind an Elemental entiy into a semi-material form through intense meditation and astral projection, intense concentration, complicated works of magical ritual, and/or force of will; thus bound, the tulpa, or homonculus, succubus, incubus, or [[Rat-Thing\|familiar spirit]] can then be forced to serve the cultist in any of a variety of ways. This creation of a "conscious thought-form" is a deliberate, conscious magickal work.
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−	It is also possible for such an entity to be created accidentally or uncsciously, as an "unconscious thought-form", created when a distraught human subject mentally obsesses on an idea, object or person, investing a great deal of strong emotion (particularly loneliness, grief, or lust), imagination, and/or will into the obsession, and an Elemental spirit responds by binding itself into the subconsciously desired form, apparently for the purpose of forming a kind of symbiotic relationship with its creator. One theory of the manifestation of poltergeist activity holds that the focus of the poltergeist manifestation has unconsciously formed a tulpa.
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−	Whether its formation was conscious and deliberate or unconscious or accidental, the subject forms the manifestation through mental visualization with energy from his or her own vitality; the entity can become dangerous when it returns to revitalize itself from its creator's energy, with effects ranging from symptoms resembling victimization by psychic [[Vampire]] (physical fatigue, loss of vitality, ennui, anhedonia, illness, depression, anxiety, unease, chills, terror), to heightened (and exhausting) solitary emotional and psychological effects (such as extended periods of intense grief, rage, isolation, lust, manic-depression, bouts of insanity, etc.), to physical ailments, to such extreme results as complete disintegration by particularly powerful and voracious Aeiirii.
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−	~~==Heresies and Controversies==~~
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−	~~==Associated Mythos Elements==~~
−	* location: the [[Other Side\|Astral Plane]], a plane or dimension where Aeiirii seem to be able to materialize more easily, and where psychics and mediums may be able to see or communicate and interact with Aeiirii more easily
−	* artifact: the [[Electric Pentacle]], a vibration- or radiation-based device for generating a sort of protective circle around investigators, is generally effective against Aeiirii
−	* artifact: the [[Elder Sign (symbol)]], a symbol or design, sometimes portrayed as a pentacle carved in stone, which seems to repel or ward off some mythos beings, including Aeiirii
−	* artifact: the [[Tillinghast Resonator]], a vibration- or radiation-based device capable of revealing the extra-dimensional physical forms of entities such as the Aeiirii
−	* tome: ''[[Sigsand Manuscript]]'' contains descriptions of the spirit obtained from "Ab-human Priests of the Raaee"
−	* tome: "[[The Saaamaaa Ritual]]" allegedly provides some relief or protection from oppression by these spirits
−	* tome: ''[[Harzan's Monograph]]'', written by an authority on psychic phenomena and "induced hauntings", including theories about the nature of these beings and protection and exorcism from them
−	* tome: ''[[Garder's Lectures]]'', based on lectures given on a physicist on parapsychology, including "Experiments with a Medium" and "Astarral Vibrations Compared with Matero-involuted Vibrations Below the Six-Billion Limit", the works that suggested the construction of the Electric Pentacle
−	* cult: the [[Carnacki Institute]] has popularized the term
−	* cult: the [[Ab-human Priests of the Raaee]] seem to have had some special insight into the nature of these beings
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−	~~==References==~~
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−	* RPG: Some descriptive material drawn from the description of Aeiirii found in ''[[http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff4/worldbk4.htm Forgotten Futures 4: The Carnacki Cylinders]]''
−	* fiction: [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s [[Carnacki]] the Ghost-Finder stories, and [[Simon R. Green]]'s pastiche Ghost Finders series
−	* fiction: the "Terrors from Beyond" that appear in "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]" might be thought of as astral forms of Aeiirii
−	* film: ''[[Judas Ghost (2015 film)]]''
−	* film: ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]''
−	* film: ''[[The Haunting (1963 film)]]'' and the [[Shirley Jackson]] ~~novel of the same title the film was based on (in the reference to a rain of stones that supposedly fell on Eleanor's house as a child)~~
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 In folklore and parapsychology, the related concept of a 'poltergeist' (German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors.  Poltergeists are sometimes regarded by parapsychologists as "subconscious manifestations of pyschokinetic activity", but poltergeists have more traditionally been described as troublesome spirits who haunt a particular person instead of a specific location:  this type of haunting is often associated with specific people, usually pre-teen girls, and can happen sporadically, with several occurrences perhaps recorded in a day, followed by up to weeks of inactivity.   Such alleged poltergeist manifestations have been reported in many cultures and countries for millennia.
-=== Elemental Haunting, Gremlin ===
+=== Elemental Haunting, Gremlins ===
 The related concept of 'elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, but rather something that was never a human being, and probably never had a physical, corporeal form.  The signs of a haunting by an elemental spirit are varied, but are associated with mental imbalance, confusion, disorientation, heightened emotion, a sense of unease or generalized anxiety, violent mood swings, manic-depression, and even hysteria in their victims; mysterious sounds (like knockings and tappings, or strange tones or music with no apparent physical source); small objects that disappear or move (or sometimes appear/reappear) on their own; animals frightened or disturbed by the (unseen) spirits; disembodied (and typically bizarre, frightening, or alien) voices; peculiar and unexplainable smells, otherwise unexplainable malfunction of mechanical or technical devices due to tampering by the spirit; occasionally, they are reported by sensitive viewers as dark shapes of black animals or humanoid shadows seen briefly from the corner of the eye and similarly subjective manifestations (see [[Djinn]], [[Shadow People]]).

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 Aeiirii are a type of non-human, incorporeal, physically invisible, generally malevolent spirit which can produce sound and other effects without fully materializing, and may even be able to manipulate solid objects - "the usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation".  Aeiirii may be psychically visible to sensitive viewers, mediums, and psychics, might also be rendered temporarily visible through arcane technological means, and may also take on some shape in the [[Other Side|Astral Plane]] and other outer worlds, typically in inhuman or quasi-human forms.
-"The usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation", inhuman spirits, so-called "ghosts" or "demons" which can affect the physical world but are not themselves composed of normal matter. Aeiiriii phenomena are dangerous; they can sometimes kill and may be able to interfere with a susceptible mind. The effects of Aeiirii manifestations can include physical damage, mental aberrations and hallucinations, and permanent damage to the psyche or even soul itself which may leave the victim mindless or insane - a fate which [[Carnacki]] regarded suicide preferable to. However, Aeiirii have definite limits to their power; in particular, they must materialise from a focus object, place, or person, are sometimes stopped by physical walls, and are usually stopped by such defences as the [[Electric Pentacle]], the [[Elder Sign]], and more traditional forms of magical protection. Thomas [[Carnacki]] believed that some religious symbols helped; for instance, he employed among his defences bowls of "a certain water", apparently holy water.
+"The usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation", inhuman spirits, so-called "ghosts" or "demons" which can affect the physical world but are not themselves composed of normal matter. Aeiiriii phenomena are dangerous; they can sometimes kill and may be able to interfere with a susceptible mind. The effects of Aeiirii manifestations can include physical damage, mental aberrations and hallucinations, and permanent damage to the psyche or even soul itself which may leave the victim mindless or insane - a fate which [[Carnacki]] regarded suicide preferable to. However, Aeiirii have definite limits to their power; in particular, they must materialise from a focus object, place, or person, are sometimes stopped by physical walls, and are usually stopped by such defences as the [[Electric Pentacle]], the [[Elder Sign (symbol)]], and more traditional forms of magical protection. Thomas [[Carnacki]] believed that some religious symbols helped; for instance, he employed among his defences bowls of "a certain water", apparently holy water.
 All evidence suggests that the Aeiirii manifestations (and the Saiitii phenomena described below) are often released or created by the human mind, rather than originating as human [[Ghost]]s; they might appear in such surreal forms as giant hands, invisible horses, mouths in stones, and the like. It is easy to assume a malevolent alien origin, but it is possible that they simply represent one aspect of a neutral force that powers such "positive" phenomena as magic, the [[Elder Gods|Astarral entities]], and the [[Saaamaaa Ritual]], but is triggered in a destructive form by human malice.
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 * location:  the [[Other Side|Astral Plane]], a plane or dimension where Aeiirii seem to be able to materialize more easily, and where psychics and mediums may be able to see or communicate and interact with Aeiirii more easily
 * artifact:  the [[Electric Pentacle]], a vibration- or radiation-based device for generating a sort of protective circle around investigators, is generally effective against Aeiirii
-* artifact:  the [[Elder Sign]], a symbol or design, sometimes portrayed as a pentacle carved in stone, which seems to repel or ward off some mythos beings, including Aeiirii
+* artifact:  the [[Elder Sign (symbol)]], a symbol or design, sometimes portrayed as a pentacle carved in stone, which seems to repel or ward off some mythos beings, including Aeiirii
 * artifact:  the [[Tillinghast Resonator]], a vibration- or radiation-based device capable of revealing the extra-dimensional physical forms of entities such as the Aeiirii
 * tome: ''[[Sigsand Manuscript]]'' contains descriptions of the spirit obtained from "Ab-human Priests of the Raaee"

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 "You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the <i>pure air</i> and the <i>blue sky</i>? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shewn you worlds that no other living men have seen? ...My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are — <i>very different</i>...."
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 === Aeiirii ===
 Aeiirii are a type of non-human, incorporeal, physically invisible, generally malevolent spirit which can produce sound and other effects without fully materializing, and may even be able to manipulate solid objects - "the usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation".  Aeiirii may be psychically visible to sensitive viewers, mediums, and psychics, might also be rendered temporarily visible through arcane technological means, and may also take on some shape in the [[Other Side|Astral Plane]] and other outer worlds, typically in inhuman or quasi-human forms.
 === Poltergeist ===
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 for list of films, see http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Film:General
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 * fiction: [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s [[Carnacki]] the Ghost-Finder stories, and [[Simon R. Green]]'s pastiche Ghost Finders series
 * fiction: the "Terrors from Beyond" that appear in "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]" might be thought of as astral forms of Aeiirii

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 "You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the <i>pure air</i> and the <i>blue sky</i>? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shewn you worlds that no other living men have seen? ...My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are — <i>very different</i>...."
 <br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]], "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]"
 </blockquote>
 Generally malevolent but relatively harmless inhuman spirits normally incapable of, or possessing limited capacity for materialization into the physical world, capable at best of limited manipulation of solid objects.  These entities rarely manifest themselves in crowded, urban settings, and seem to instead prefer isolated, often natural settings, though they can attach themselves to specific human beings or objects and "ride" their hosts as the hosts move to a new setting, and occultists and other humans have noted that certain occult practices can deliberately or accidentally open the door to the spirit world and create an elemental haunting.  Most cultures have developed methods of sacrifice to such spirits in the form of small offerings or gifts of food, treasure, space in or near the home to occupy, etc. in a bid to placate the spirits and prevent them from disturbing humans.  Others have developed rituals of exorcism crafted to drive such spirits away from locations, objects, and/or people.

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 === Terror From Beyond ===
 In the short story "[[From beyond (fiction)|From Beyond]]", Lovecraft describes a host of unseen, inhuman shapes that co-exist with the physical human world, revealed in the light of a [[Tillinghast Resonator]], which might resemble the physical forms of beings otherwise seen only in astral form:  "Indescribable shapes both alive and otherwise were mixed in disgusting disarray, and close to every known thing were whole worlds of alien, unknown entities. It likewise seemed that all the known things entered into the composition of other unknown things, and vice versa. Foremost among the living objects were great inky, jellyish monstrosities which flabbily quivered in harmony with the vibrations from the machine. They were present in loathsome profusion, and I saw to my horror that they overlapped; that they were semi-fluid and capable of passing through one another and through what we know as solids. These things were never still, but seemed ever floating about with some malignant purpose. Sometimes they appeared to devour one another, the attacker launching itself at its victim and instantaneously obliterating the latter from sight."  In the story, the majority of these entities are near the bottom of a food chain that includes particularly dangerous predators, horrible to behold in the light of the Resonator, which, once attracted to the material plane, are capable of hunting and then feeding on human victims to the point of disintegration, resulting in mysterious disappearances; those entities that usually interact with the material world in the form of Poltergeists, Demons, and Inhuman/Elemental hauntings would seem to reside somewhere in the upper-middle or higher spans of this food chain as apex predators in their native environment, or even as intelligent (if thoroughly alien) beings.
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * tome: ''[[Sigsand Manuscript]]'' contains descriptions of the spirit obtained from "Ab-human Priests of the Raaee"
 * tome: "[[The Saaamaaa Ritual]]" allegedly provides some relief or protection from oppression by these spirits
 * cult: the [[Carnacki Institute]] has popularized the term
 * cult: the [[Ab-human Priests of the Raaee]] seem to have had some special insight into the nature of these beings

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-Aeiirii, also known as a poltergeist, demon, elemental, tommyknocker, bucca, gremlin, domovoi, gnome, goblin, or kobold
+Aeiirii, also known as a Terrors from Beyond, poltergeist, demon, elemental, tommyknocker, bucca, gremlin, domovoi, gnome, goblin, or kobold
 Origin:  this type of spirit has its origins in the most ancient human folklore, but the term Aeiirii first appears in the [[Carnacki]] supernatural detective stories of [[William Hope Hodgson]].
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-Description
+"You see them? You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you every moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the <i>pure air</i> and the <i>blue sky</i>? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shewn you worlds that no other living men have seen? ...My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are — <i>very different</i>...."
-<br>— Author, "Story"
+<br>— [[H.P. Lovecraft]], "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]"
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-Aeiirii are a type of non-human, incorporeal, invisible, generally malevolent spirit which can produce sound and other effects without fully materializing, and may even be able to manipulate solid objects - "the usual Aeiirii forms of semi-materialisation".
+Generally malevolent but relatively harmless inhuman spirits normally incapable of, or possessing limited capacity for materialization into the physical world, capable at best of limited manipulation of solid objects.  These entities rarely manifest themselves in crowded, urban settings, and seem to instead prefer isolated, often natural settings, though they can attach themselves to specific human beings or objects and "ride" their hosts as the hosts move to a new setting, and occultists and other humans have noted that certain occult practices can deliberately or accidentally open the door to the spirit world and create an elemental haunting.  Most cultures have developed methods of sacrifice to such spirits in the form of small offerings or gifts of food, treasure, space in or near the home to occupy, etc. in a bid to placate the spirits and prevent them from disturbing humans.  Others have developed rituals of exorcism crafted to drive such spirits away from locations, objects, and/or people.
-In folklore and parapsychology, the related concept of a 'poltergeist' (German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors.  They have traditionally been described as troublesome spirits who haunt a particular person instead of a specific location. Such alleged poltergeist manifestations have been reported in many cultures and countries for millennia.
+=== Aeiirii ===
-The related concept of 'elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, but rather something that was never a human being, and probably never had a physical, corporeal form.  The signs of a haunting by an elemental spirit are varied, but are associated with mental imbalance, confusion, disorientation, heightened emotion, generalized anxiety in their victims; violent mood swings, manic-depression, and even hysteria in their victims; mysterious sounds (like knockings and tappings); small objects that disappear or move (or sometimes appear/reappear) on their own; animals frightened or disturbed by the (unseen) spirits; disembodied (and typically bizarre, frightening, or alien) voices; peculiar and unexplainable smells, otherwise unexplainable malfunction of mechanical or technical devices due to tampering by the spirit;
+=== Poltergeist ===
-These entities rarely manifest themselves in crowded, urban settings, and seem to instead prefer isolated, often natural settings, though they can attach themselves to specific human beings or objects and "ride" their hosts as the hosts move to a new setting, and occultists and other humans have noted that certain occult practices can deliberately or accidentally open the door to the spirit world and create a an elemental haunting.  Most cultures have developed methods of sacrifice to such spirits in the form of small offerings or gifts of food, treasure, space in or near the home to occupy, etc. in a bid to placate the spirits and prevent them from disturbing humans.  Others have developed rituals of exorcism crafted to drive such spirits away from locations, objects, and/or people.
+=== Elemental Haunting, Gremlin ===
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 * fiction: [[William Hope Hodgson]]'s [[Carnacki]] the Ghost-Finder stories, and [[Simon R. Green]]'s pastiche Ghost Finders series
 * film: ''[[Judas Ghost (2015 film)]]''
 * film: ''[[Poltergeist (1982 franchise)]]''