Afreet—a sort of Arabian ghoul or demon—the epitome of what is terrible and monstrous in Arabian superstition.
Peri (plural of Peris)—Peri are delicate, gentle, fairy-like beings of Eastern mythology, begotten by fallen spirits. With a wand they direct the pure in mind the way to heaven.
Miscellaneous Fairies and Other Supernatural Creatures
Esprit Follet—the house-spirit of France.
Familiar spirit—a spirit or demon supposed to be summoned by a necromancer or a soothsayer from the unseen world to attend upon him as a servant.
Fay—the French word for fairy, anglicised.
Gnome—one of a fabulous race of dwarfed and misshapen earth-spirits or goblins, reputed to be special guardians of mines and miners. (<French gnome, from the Greek.)
Hag—a forbidding or malicious old woman; a witch. (<A. S. haegtes, a fury.)
Hamadryad—a wood-nymph fabled to live and die with the tree she inhabited, the oak being considered as the tree preferred. (Greek mythology.)
Hornie, or Horny—the devil; so called because commonly represented with horns.