I'm checking Cendrars, a few words he mentions I'm not precisely sure of.
Start with Teraphim - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teraphim, the sense Cendrars uses is it as if it were an automaton or robot, and the Wiki or Biblical definition seems to vary in the sense used.
Follow with Mazzikim, which leads one to Shedim, Azazel, Naamah, and Asmodeus - the demon personification of lust, as well the King of Gambling in Hell (who knew you could gamble in Hell?), read the Wiki, an interesting figure if ever there was one, a devil in a bottle, and from here the links become unmanageable, I'll be up all night playing this game...
On to the Dybbuk, then Daimon, Daimonic, (because things are never as simple or straightforward as you think...) Tutelary, Keres, Numinous, Harpocrates,...
The gaps in my knowledge are proving painfully apparent.
Coming to the ideas of Spirits of Place, or Genius Loci, Which of course refresh the ideas of Haunting, with of course too many examples to list, and Fairies, Puck, Elves, Ghosts, Japanese Dieties, Cacodemon,...
It is truly never ending. And while some I know - of course, it's interesting to read the references and lore on the Wikipedia Pages, which lead on - and on - and on....
I come across Lévy-Bruhl, who was fascination (Primitive Mentality) - and of course, I'm struck, the Universality of these beliefs, every culture has some corollary or equivalent, curious and curioser...
Coming to, the ideas of Emergence, The Collective Unconscious, (I am familiar, have read Jung, but this is a gold mine...), The idea that the Old Testament Idols refers to foreign Gods - which explains the prohibition against them, but Judaism, as well as Muslim Faith, offer strict injunctions against physical representations of God, and we are starting to go places...
So, a years worth of word golfing in a single evening, checking things I took for granted I understood to find only that I didn't, or my understanding you use some elaboration, and this, just scraping the surface...