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−	'Elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, and perhaps never even had a physical, corporeal form, originating instead on the [[Seven_Planes#Malkuth.3B_Primordial_or_Elemental_Plane_.28First_Plane.29\|Elemental Plane]], [[Other Side\|Astral Plane]] or [[Seven Planes\|other outer dimensions]]. 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 inexplicable 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]], [[Gremlin]], [[Shadow People]]). In extreme cases, elemental hauntings can infest locations or objects, imbuing them with a deadly parody of substance and life.	+	'Elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, and perhaps never even had a physical, corporeal form, originating instead on the [[Seven_Planes#Malkuth.3B_Primordial_or_Elemental_Plane_.28First_Plane.29\|Elemental Plane]], [[Other Side\|Astral Plane]] or [[Seven Planes\|other outer dimensions]]. 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 inexplicable 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]], [[Gremlin]], [[Shadow Person\|Shadow People]]). In extreme cases, elemental hauntings can infest locations or objects, imbuing them with a deadly parody of substance and life.

	At their weakest, 'elementals' are 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, but especially powerful 'elementals'. 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.		At their weakest, 'elementals' are 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, but especially powerful 'elementals'. 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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 Elementals, also known as a Aeiirii, Saiitii (AKA Saaaiti, Saaitti), Terrors from Beyond, poltergeists, demons, tommyknockers, buccas, gremlins, domovoi, gnomes, goblins, dybbuks, or kobolds
 Origin:  this type of spirit has its origins in the most ancient human folklore, but the terms 'Aeiirii' and 'Saiitii' (and variations) first appears in the [[Carnacki]] supernatural detective stories of [[William Hope Hodgson]], while the similar "Terror from Beyond" is used to describe entities first described in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[From Beyond (fiction)]]".
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 === Elemental Spirits and Hauntings ===
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 "Very odd things indeed can happen during early morning birdwatching. One ornithologist was occupied in that way by the shore of a Scottish loch. He became aware of an inexplicable entity that had somehow appeared on the (generally rather open and bleak) opposite shore. It looked like a man and yet not like a man and, what was more, it appeared to be entirely black. The ornithologist was alarmed from the start, but as he stared at the entity, it began to move along the side of the loch. It seemed to be doing so with extraordinary swiftness. The loch was fairly large, but it was not long before the idea came to the ornithologist that the entity might be making for him in particular. He departed at a quick walk. After he had managed to look over his shoulder, the walk became a very fast run. But the situation was hopeless: the black entity was gaining on him at a rate entirely beyond common experience; and he could see now that as well as being black, it was huge. Beside that part of the loch stretched a rough road, down which the ornithologist was fleeing. When the entity had all but caught up with him, the ornithologist threw himself over a five-barred gate into an adjoining large meadow or waste-land. There was little point in doing so. It was sheer, unthinking, desperation. As he landed on the ground, he fainted. There, hours later, he was found by a shepherd; still unconscious, but otherwise alive and without physical injury. Possibly he had seen what is known as an 'elemental': perhaps the earliest and most primitive form of surviving organism, natural or supernatural. It was understood that he gave up birdwatching thereafter."

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 === Elemental Spirits and Hauntings ===
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 "Very odd things indeed can happen during early morning birdwatching. One ornithologist was occupied in that way by the shore of a Scottish loch. He became aware of an inexplicable entity that had somehow appeared on the (generally rather open and bleak) opposite shore. It looked like a man and yet not like a man and, what was more, it appeared to be entirely black. The ornithologist was alarmed from the start, but as he stared at the entity, it began to move along the side of the loch. It seemed to be doing so with extraordinary swiftness. The loch was fairly large, but it was not long before the idea came to the ornithologist that the entity might be making for him in particular. He departed at a quick walk. After he had managed to look over his shoulder, the walk became a very fast run. But the situation was hopeless: the black entity was gaining on him at a rate entirely beyond common experience; and he could see now that as well as being black, it was huge. Beside that part of the loch stretched a rough road, down which the ornithologist was fleeing. When the entity had all but caught up with him, the ornithologist threw himself over a five-barred gate into an adjoining large meadow or waste-land. There was little point in doing so. It was sheer, unthinking, desperation. As he landed on the ground, he fainted. There, hours later, he was found by a shepherd; still unconscious, but otherwise alive and without physical injury. Possibly he had seen what is known as an 'elemental': perhaps the earliest and most primitive form of surviving organism, natural or supernatural. It was understood that he gave up birdwatching thereafter."

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−	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.	+	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, the [[Terror from Beyond\|Terrors from Beyond]], 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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		+	See [[Terror from Beyond]] for more details.

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-'Elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, and perhaps never even had a physical, corporeal form, originating instead on the [[Other Side|Astral Plane]] or other outer dimensions.  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 inexplicable 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]], [[Gremlin]], [[Shadow People]]).  In extreme cases, elemental hauntings can infest locations or objects, imbuing them with a deadly parody of substance and life.
+'Elemental hauntings' refers specifically to a type of spirit that was never a living a human being, and perhaps never even had a physical, corporeal form, originating instead on the [[Seven_Planes#Malkuth.3B_Primordial_or_Elemental_Plane_.28First_Plane.29|Elemental Plane]], [[Other Side|Astral Plane]] or [[Seven Planes|other outer dimensions]].  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 inexplicable 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]], [[Gremlin]], [[Shadow People]]).  In extreme cases, elemental hauntings can infest locations or objects, imbuing them with a deadly parody of substance and life.
 At their weakest, 'elementals' are 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, but especially powerful 'elementals'.  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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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * race:  [[Outer Monstrosities]], which seem to be a considerably more powerful and higher order of "elemental" spirit, roughly comparable to the Saiitii and Aeiirii in material, nature, and origin, though different in intellect, power, size, and capability
-* 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
+* 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; see also the [[Seven Planes]]
 * 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

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 "There was something living in the computer and server room air ducts, small and hairy, you could see its eyes in the dark - you put a call center out in the hills, and of course that's what you're gunna get.  It was scaring the ladies working over the midnight shift, so we just told them it was a 'possum, but even we could tell that the whole system was haunted: something kept gumming up the servers, and messing with the scripting and changing settings around, and running off with memory and processors and cables and what-have-you.  We weren't fooling no one, no how:  'We saw your "possum" again last night', the ladies would always say, sarcastically, "it still don't look like no 'possums we ever seen."  Them in management didn't know any better, though, and we sure weren't going to tell them otherwise - you can't tell city people nothing, so "'possum" was what we told 'em, that's what they put down in the log books, and that's what they told the exterminators they called.  The exterminators never saw any 'possums up there, they just set a few traps, then collected them, empty, a couple weeks later, and I know they knew it wasn't nothing natural creeping around there at night.  Then things just went on like usual, the ladies still seeing shadows creeping around the computers at night, and eyes staring out of the air vents, or peekin' in the windows at them out of the dark, till I guess them things got bored with us and wandered off, and we never seen 'em little people again."
-<br>—Rural Information Technology Department
+<br>—Anonymous Information Techn for a Rural Call Center
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