These accounts are compiled from recollected ‘confessions’ of travellers who had wandered upon elemental beings – Sylphs, Nymphs & Salamanders. Often led astray, they had come across moments of clarity, confusion and insight that had marked them in their attitudes to life and the world.

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Owing to how they would be judged and deemed mad in certain cases, they have chosen to remain anonymous.

Entrusted with the laborious task of staying true to the source material, I have attempted my best at faithful transcription.