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Dear Colleagues, I am currently writing an article on Irish fairy belief and folk religion. I am trying to avoid terms like 'supernatural' and the consequent cosmological separation between 'natural' and 'super-natural'. I don't wish to use 'spiritual being' as this has an association of non-physical and not all of the beings I'm discussing are described as non-physical (in that they are flesh and blood). 'Other-than-human' suggests a superiority of human beings above other beings and also includes a whole range of creatures (animals, birds, insects, bacteria). I came across the description 'non-ordinary beings' and I wonder who coined this term. Does anyone on the list know? With best wishes, Jenny