John A. Keel WHY UFOS

as turning up in the form of Abraham Lincoln. She alsodescribed his/its volatile temper."They're Valkyries, you know," she said. "They have awonderful sense of humor, but they also get very angry ifyou contradict them."Throughout history occultists have called these entitieselementals. There are several kinds of elementals in psychiclore. One type is supposedly conjured up by secret magicalrites and can assume any kind of form ranging from that ofa beautiful woman to hideous, indescribable monsters.Once a witch or warlock has whipped up such a critter, itwill mindlessly repeat the same actions century aftercentury in the same place until another occultist comesalong and performs the rite necessary to dissolve it. Manyhauntings are ascribed to elemental beings. Generationafter generation the entity returns to the same spot to walkalong a specific course. If a house is built on the spot, it willwalk through the house leaving unlocked doors in its wake,parading through bedrooms and pantries, wanderingblindly across gardens. There are innumerable documentedinstances in which knowledgeable occultists have gottenrid of such entities by exercising certain rites and chantingancient prayers. Sounds ridiculous, but, as with theexorcism rites of the Church, it seems to work.The leprechauns of Ireland seem to be another form ofelemental. They may be akin to the legendary elves of theBlack Forest in Germany and the mysterious little "StickPeople" of the North American Indians. The Irish have allkinds of stories and lore about the "little people." In 1968,the people in Ballymagroartyscotch were up in arms whenroad builders threatened to cut down a skeog, or fairy tree.According to tradition, some fairies locate themselves inskeogs, and woe to anyone who tries to cut them down.Several contractors refused the job of chopping down thetree. One of them, Ray Greene, said, "I heard of a chapwith the electricity board, and he cut down a fairy tree, andthe next day he fell off an electricity pole and was killed."The problem was finally solved by diverting the roadaround the gnarled old tree.From the days of Moses' burning bush to the modernappearances of angels and holy personages, these strangeevents seem to have concentrated themselves around treesand shrubbery.A few years ago a sidhe, or fairy mound, was found byworkmen building an airport in Ireland. They flatly