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announced that they were from the cantel (their word for planet) of Aenstria. They identified themselves as Caellsan, Selorik and Traellison. These names were probably plays on old Greek terms. Aenstria could be derived from the ancient Greek story of Aeneas, the son of the Trojan prince Anchises and the Goddess Aphrodite. Aeneas roamed the world for seven years and was the subject of Virgil’s history, Aeneid, a book Shuttlewood had never even heard of. Caellsan could have had its roots in the story of Caeneus, a Thessalian woman who was supposed to have the power to change her sex. According to legend, she offended Zeus and was punished by being changed into a bird. One of the seven hills of Rome is named Caelian. The name ‘‘Selorik”’ might have come from Selene, the mean nk Aann. 22 OLA Wa 1. moon goddess of Greek mythology. The name game is also played at seances, with materializations claiming a variety of names adopted from ancient Egyptian, Greek and various Indian languages. Apparently the elementals have a language of their own which sounds like double-talk or bad science fiction, and they frequently toss in words and names from that language just to keep things confused. Thousands of mediums, psychics and UFO contactees have been receiving mountains of messages from ‘‘Ashtar’’ in recent years. Mr. Ashtar represents himself as a leader in the great intergalactic councils that hold regular meetings on Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and many planets unknown to us. But Ashtar is not a new arrival. Variations of this name, such as Ashtaroth, Ashar, Asharoth, etc., appear in demonological literature throughout history, both in the Orient and the Occident. Mr. Ashtar has been around a very long time, posing as assorted gods and demons and now, in the modern phase, as another glorious spaceman. Angels, too, indulge in the name game. Gustav Davidson’s Dictionary of Angels is filled with names very similar to those that crop up in UFO and occult lore. And, of course, the fairies and leprechauns of northern Europe have played the name game with almost delightful vengeance, particularly during the Middle Ages. There is more truth to Rumpelstilt- skin than most people recognize. Fairies are supposed to possess magical powers—the ability to alter physical matter and to paralyze people through spells. To be bewitched by fairies is to have your mind and body controlled by them. Accounts of little humanoids with supernatural powers can be found in almost every culture. In Indian Legends of the Northern Rockies, Dr. E. E. Clark describes the various Indian legends about little three-foot-tall beings who rendered themselves invisible by rubbing themselves with a The Cosmic Jokers / 205