i translated it vaguely into a personification of the mightily disturbed elements , investing them with the horror of a deliberate and malefic purpose , resentful of our audacious intrusion into their breeding-place ; whereas my friend threw it into the unoriginal form at first of a trespass on some ancient shrine , some place where the old gods still held sway , where the emotional forces of former worshippers still clung , and the ancestral portion of him yielded to the old pagan spell .