Sylph of Moonlight

Sylph

A sylph is an air spirit stemming from the 16th-century works of Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as (invisible) beings of the air, his elementals of air. A significant number of subsequent literary and occult works have been inspired by Paracelsus's concept: Robert Alfred Vaughan noted that "the wild but poetical fantasies" of Paracelsus had probably exercised a larger influence over his age and the subsequent one than is generally supposed, particularly on the Rosicrucians, but that through the 18th century they had become reduced to "machinery for the playwright" and "opera figurantes with wings of gauze and spangles".

Moonlight

Moonlight is light from the surface of the Moon, consisting mostly of reflected sunlight, and some earthlight.

sylph

Noun

1. An invisible being of the air.
2. The elemental being of air, usually female.

moonlight

Noun

1. The light reflected from the Moon, which seems to emanate from it.
2. The silvery colour of the light reflected by the Moon.

Verb

1. To do a moonlight flit: to secretly leave premises without paying the rent, supposedly at night by the light of the Moon.