What is the supernatural machinery in "The Rape of the Lock"?"The Rape of the Lock" by Alexander Pope

Since Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" is a mock epic, the
poet includes supernatural machinery in this poem, but parodies it by having the
beautiful women return to the elements from which they came as anything but the elevated
creatures such as the gods and angels that true epics
employ.

The violent tempered women, or termagants, return
as salamanders, or spirit of the fire; the women of pleasing dispositions return as
nymphs, or water spirits; prudish women become gnomes, or earth spirits;  coquettes, or
light-hearted women comes as sylphs, or spirits of the
air.

It is in their occupations that Pope employs his
satire, too.  The sylphs, for example, protect the chaste maidens from falling victim to
the "treacherous friends" of the male sex. While the gnomes fill the minds of young
maidens with foolish ideas, teaching them to ogle the men and pretend to blush, the
sylphs safely guide the maidens through all the dangers.