 Perhaps in a turn of irony or even a tacit admission of guilt, Apuleius, in his "Metamorphoses" (or "The Golden Ass"), which perhaps has autobiographical elements, allows the hero, Lucius, to dabble in magic as a young man, get into trouble, be rescued by the goddess Isis, and then finds true knowledge and happiness in her mysteries.Like Plutarch, Apuleius seems to take for granted the existence of daemons.They populate the air and seem to, in fact, be formed of air.