Editing Telchines (section)

=== Sorcerers and demons ===
The Telchines were also regarded as wizards and envious daemons.<ref>[[Suda]] s.v. ''Baskanoi kai goêtes''</ref><ref>Eustathius ad Homer pp. 941 & 1391</ref> Their very eyes and aspect were said to have been destructive.<ref>Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'' 7.365</ref> They had it in their power to bring on hail, rain, and snow, and to assume any form they pleased;<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#55.3 5.55.3]</ref> they further produced a substance poisonous to living things.<ref>Strabo, ''Geographica'' 14.2.7 p. 653</ref><ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 7.15 p. 126–127</ref> Thus, they were called '''Alastores''' for supervising the ceaseless wanderings of people and '''Palamnaioi''' for pouring the water of Styx with their palms and hands in order to make the fields infertile.<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 7.15 p. 128–132</ref> The Telchines were described to have stings and being rough as the echinoid and thus, their names ''teliochinous'' that is “having a poisonous ''telos'' like an echinoid”.<ref>Tzetzes, ''Chiliades'' 12.51 p. 839–840</ref>