Element Number Five: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'', the girls have powers based on the four elements, with Will being [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|the heart]]. [[Playing with a Trope|Instead of getting this fifth element later, she gets a]] ''power-up'' that lets her use Quintessence, an [[Shock and Awe|electrical power]] that could bring appliances and golem-like beings to life, summon ghosts from the site of their deaths and [[Lightning Can Do Anything|a whole lot of other applications]].

 

* [[Real Life]] alchemists sometimes talked of such a concept - also called ''Quintessence'' ([[Altum Videtur|Latin]], roughly, for [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"Element Number Five"]]). Common ideas were "Aether" and "vital essence" (essentially life itself). It was thought that the heavens were made of pure quintessence, and the imperfect Earth of the lesser elements. The extraction of quintessence was considered one of the fundamental goals of alchemy.

* The ''Goethe-Gymnasium'' in Berlin-Wilmersdorf was built a few years before World War I in a historicist style. On the side facing Uhlandstraße are carved representations of the five elements - fire, earth, air, water and ''electricity''.