Imp

Imp
A more popular name for this entity is genie. Historically the imp was thought to be a small demon kept in a bottle or ring. When released or awaken the entity served its master in magical, alchemical, or healing purposes.

200: "The child Christ is represented almost as an imp, cursing and destroying those who annoy him.

great and wise--Phocion; ap. Plutarch, Reg. et Imp. Apophthegm. Phocion, 4.
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chameleons of popularity; cf. ccxcv.

He is a very merry imp, and will help a friend in anything relative to his department; he will shower rain and show the future and the present to those who will resort to hydromancy or divination by water.

Originally a supernatural being of Germanic mythology, an elemental spirit of the land, sea and forest, possessed of powers which it used for the good or ill of mankind. Later the name was used for a malignant imp, ...

See also: World, Evil, Sacred, Esoteric, Mystic