[Phtha]

Originally Posted by macrostheblack

Do any of you guys collect crystals?

I indeed found a very nice crystal deposit in a "blast area" on a local ski resort while hiking or rather bushwacking during the off season. I found only quartz crystals thus far. It was a very exciting experience for me though, to find them in the rough like that. There were also lots of pyrite(fools gold we later found after being fooled), and other silver types of metals in the same area. I can snap some pictures of them if your interested in seeing what they look like. I haven't cleaned them yet, I need to get a certain type of acid from what I hear.

Also to stay on topic I'll paste some information on "nature spirits" as described by HP Blavatsky in one of her books. I posted this in another fairy thread, and I quote:

"ELEMENTAL SPIRITS.- The creatures evolved in the four kingdoms of the earth, air, fire, and water, and called by the kabalists gnomes, sylphs, salamanders, and undines. They may be termed the forces of nature, and will either operate effects as the servile agents of general law, or may be employed by the disembodied spirits - whether pure or impure - and by the living adepts of magic, sorcery, to produce desired phenomenal results. Such beings never become men.

Under the general designation of fairies, and fays, these spirits of the elements appear in the myth, fable, tradition, or poetry if all nations, ancient and modern. Their names are legion - peris, devs, djins, sylvans, satyrs, fauns, elves, dwarfs, trolls, norns, nisses, kobolds, brownies, necks, stromkarls, undines, nixies, salamanders, goblins, ponkes, banshees, kelpies, pixies, moss people, good people, good neighbors, wild women, men of peace, white ladies, and many more. They have been seen, feared, blessed, banned, and invoked in every quarter of the globe and in every age. Shall we then concede that all who have met them were hallucinated?

These elementals are the principal agents of the disembodies but never visible spirits at seances, and the producers of all the phenomena except the subjective."