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Familiar spirits were most commonly small animals, such as cats, rats, dogs, ferrets, birds, frogs, toads, and hares. There were also cases of wasps and butterflies, as well as pigs, sheep, and horses. Familiar spirits were usually kept in pots or baskets lined with sheep's wool and fed a variety of things including, milk, bread, meat, and ...
Pyewacket was one of the supposed familiar spirits of an alleged witch accused by the claimed Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins in March 1644 in the town of Manningtree, Essex, England. Hopkins claimed he spied on the witches as they held their meeting close by his house, and heard them mention the name of a local woman.
Black cat; Boy (dog) C. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits; D. A Dialogue Concerning Witches and Witchcrafts; The Dragon's Familiar; F. The Familiars (novel series) G.
Pyewacket (familiar spirit), a familiar spirit reported by an alleged witch in 1644; Pyewacket, a 2017 Canadian film by Adam MacDonald; Pyewacket, a 1967 children's novel by Rosemary Weir; Pye Wacket, an experimental missile; Pyewacket, a sailing yacht commissioned in 2004 by Roy E. Disney
Richard Whittington and his Cat (1808) In the Renaissance, cats were often thought [clarification needed] to be witches' familiars in England (for example, Greymalkin, the first witch's familiar in Macbeth ' s famous opening scene), and during festivities were sometimes [clarification needed] burnt alive or thrown off buildings. [citation needed]
A cat familiar named “Grimalkin” is the watch cat of Dr. Julian Karswell in the 1957 film Curse of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur. It normally looked like a small housecat, but had the ability to transform into a large jaguar to attack intruders. Grimalkin is the name of a mysterious black cat in the game Cat Cafe Manager.
The sisters said they had entered into communion with familiar spirits that had assisted them with their schemes. The mother's familiar was a cat named Rutterkin. [10] The women admitted that they stole the glove of Lord Ros and gave it to their mother, who had dipped it in boiling water, stroked it along Rutterkin's back, and pricked it. [10]
The play's title comes from the name of one character's pet cat, supposed to be her familiar spirit, likely inspired by the supposed imp of one Elizabeth Clarke, a woman tried and executed for witchcraft in Essex in 1645.