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Sorr?e ;fmong the many subdivisions of this class a,remuch less childlike and more dignified than those we have been describing, and it is from these sections that the entities who have sometimes been reverenced under the name of woodgods, of local village gods, have been drawn. Such entities •would be<fuite sensible of the flattery involved in the reverence shown to them, would enjoy it, and would no doubt be quite ready to do any small service they could in return. (The village-god is also often an artificial entity, but that variety will be considered in its appropriate place.)
The Adept knows how to make use of the services of the nature-spirits when he requires them, but the ordinary magician can obtain their assistance only by processes either of invocation orevocation—thatis,eitherby attracting their attention as a suppliant and making some kind of bargain with