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Who Are the Elementals?

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Who Are the Elementals?

According to Paracelsus

Paracelsus
Paracelsus invented chemical therapy, chemical urinalysis, and suggested a biochemical theory of digestion. Paracelsus used chemistry and chemical analogies in his teachings to medical students and to the medical establishment, many of whom found them objectionable.
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and his subsequent followers, there are four categories of elementals, which are gnomes, undines, sylphs, and salamanders. These correspond to the four Empedoclean elements of antiquity: earth, water, air, and fire, respectively.

Who are the Elementals in far from home?

A variation of the Elementals appear in the 2019 live-action film Spider-Man: Far From Home. This version of the group takes inspiration from the Elementals of Doom and consists of the Wind, Earth, Fire, and Water Elemental, who are modeled after Cyclone, Sandman, Molten Man, and Hydro-Man respectively.

Are Fairies Elementals?

An alchemist, Paracelsus, classed gnomes and sylphs as elementals, meaning magical entities who personify a particular force of nature, and exert powers over these forces. Folklore accounts have described fairies as "spirits of the air".

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