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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 ...
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 ...
Eventually, it came to be believed that imps were the familiar spirit servants of witches and warlocks, where the little demons served as spies and informants. During the time of the witch hunts , supernatural creatures such as imps were sought out as proof of witchcraft , though often the so-called imp was merely a black cat , a lizard , a ...
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 ...
One of Alyssa's witch friends who likes snakes as familiars. Luna (ルーナ, Rūna) Voiced by: Akira Sekine [4] Another of Alyssa's witch friends who has a fetish taste in familiars. Fennel (フェンネル, Fenneru) Voiced by: Takayuki Kondo [4] He is the leading customer of Alyssa's dried herbs and medicinal plants who has a crush on her.
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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.