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A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits (Latin: Ex Libro de Nymphis, Sylvanis, Pygmaeis, Salamandris et Gigantibus, etc) is a treatise by the Swiss lay theologian and philosopher Paracelsus, published posthumously in 1566.
The other three elemental spirits named were Gnomes (earth), Salamanders (fire), and Undines (water). These ideas were adopted in Rosicrucianism and were widely encountered in subsequent hermetic literature. In the Liber de Nymphis of the Philosophia Magna, Paracelsus discusses the
Admirable false brook salamander (Aquiloeurycea praecellens) Bolitoglossa nussbaumi; Tlapacoyan salamander (Chiropterotriton casasi) Oedipina petiola; Anita's false brook salamander (Pseudoeurycea anitae) Aquatic salamander (Pseudoeurycea aquatica) Brown false brook salamander (Pseudoeurycea brunnata) Teotepec salamander (Pseudoeurycea teotepec)
Comte de Gabalis used the terms sylphide and gnomide to refer to female sylphs and gnomes (often "sylphid" and "gnomid" in English translations). Male nymphs (the term used instead of the Paracelsian "undine") are said to be rare, while female salamanders are rarely seen. [11] The Rosicrucians claimed to be able to see such elemental spirits.
Cruz Blanca salamander (Chiropterotriton totonacus) Monzon's hidden salamander (Cryptotriton monzoni) Cataguana hidden salamander (Cryptotriton necopinus) Sierra de las Minas hidden salamander (Cryptotriton sierraminensis) Baja Verapaz salamander (Cryptotriton veraepacis) Sierra de Xucaneb hidden salamander (Cryptotriton xucaneborum)
Memnon likewise mentions (c. 11) a Nymphis as one of the exiles in 281 BCE, when Seleucus I Nicator, after the death of Lysimachus, threatened Heracleia; but notwithstanding the remark of Clinton (sub anno 281) the interval of forty-one years between the two events just mentioned, leads to the conclusion that the latter Nymphis was a different ...
Ondine was the title of one of the poems in Aloysius Bertrand's collection Gaspard de la Nuit of 1842. This poem inspired the first movement of Maurice Ravel's 1908 piano suite Gaspard de la nuit. The character of Mélisande from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande has been seen as an Undine figure.
Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With over 500 species, lungless salamanders are by far the largest family of salamanders in terms of their diversity. Most species are native to the Western Hemisphere , from British Columbia to Brazil.