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Articles relating to familiars and their depictions, supernatural entities or spiritual guardians that would protect or assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
A late-16th-century English illustration of a witch feeding her familiars. In European folklore of the medieval and early modern periods, familiars (strictly familiar spirits, as "familiar" also meant just "close friend" or companion, and may be seen in the scientific name for dog, Canis familiaris) were believed to be supernatural entities, interdimensional beings, or spiritual guardians that ...
Fictional familiars, supernatural entities or spiritual guardians that would protect or assist witches and cunning folk in their practice of magic. Pages in category "Fictional familiars" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The first part of Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits is devoted to a historical examination of the professional cunning folk and accused witches of Early Modern Britain, with a particular focus on the beliefs in familiar spirits that they held to; according to Wilby, this serves the purpose of "illustrat[ing] in some detail, the event-pattern ...
Modern versus fictional witches "In general, when people talk about witchcraft as we see it in horror films or supernatural TV series, which often doesn't really bear much resemblance to the ...
However, the so-called witch was shocked at the presence of a familiar spirit in the image of Samuel for in I Sam 28:7 states "Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor" and in I Sam 28:12 says, "when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice", and the familiar spirit questioned his reawakening, asking as if he ...
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The Familiars, a 2010 series of children's fantasy books; The Familiar, 41st book in the Animorphs series; The Familiar, a book series by Mark Z. Danielewski starting with The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May; Familiar, a 2015 play by Danai Gurira; The Familiar, a 2024 historical fantasy novel by Leigh Bardugo