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Sylphs

in the fantastic system of the air, just as the salamanders are of fire and the gnomes of earth. They hold an intermediate place between immaterial and material beings. They eat, drink, speak, move about, beget children, and are subject to infirmities like men; but, on the other hand, they resemble spirits in being more nimble and swift in their motions , while their bodies are more diaphanous than those of the huin their knowledge, both of the present man race. They also surpass the latter and the future, but have no soul, and when they die nothing is left. They marry with our race, like the Undines and the Gnomes, and the children of such a union have souls and belong to the human race. human race. In common usage the term is applied to a graceful maiden.

Elizabeth, Queen of Rumania, a poet and

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