Familiar Unto Me Quotes

“What we can see here are the types of activities the spirits engage in. In the case of Gowdie”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Alisons brother James Device had a familiar named Dandy. Dandy first appeared to him as a brown dog and later as a black dog.”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Demdikes daughter”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“The other of the two most notorious Pendle witches was Chattox. Her familiar was named Fancy. Fancy initially appeared as a man but also as a bear and spotted dog at other times. Faery animals are also sometimes described as spotted”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“One of the two main Pendle witches”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Women riding in the night in spirit with supernatural elven power to cause harm is a common motif spanning centuries before the witch trials. Mythological women of power are also often shown as armed. The overlapping traditions linking armed elf-women”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Gowdies Devil provides elf-shot to the witches. This Devil takes them to dine in faeryland; although the Devil is not described as being at the table with the Faery Queen”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Many types of spirits can become familiars. The method by which they are acquired will vary largely based on the practitioner. Someone born with witchblood will likely encounter a spirit”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“He goes on to quote Samuel Harsnett”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“In The Meanings of Elf and Elves in Medieval England”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“A major difficulty in ascertaining the nature of the familiar spirits in trial accounts is that there is often no agreement as to what the spirits are. The accused might describe their familiar as a ghost”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“While some very notable Scottish witch trial cases”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“According to McNamara-Wilson”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“As we said at the on set of our discussion of the leannan sidhe”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“The first tale of the leannan sidhe presented by Moore accords with his view that they are guardian spirits that befriend families. He explains that the Fletcher family of the Ballafletcher Estate had a special crystal cup. The cup was dedicated to the leannan sidhe”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Again”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“For Wilde”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Lady Wilde presents the leannan sidhe as a distinct type of faery being in Ancient Legends Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland. For Lady Wilde”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Oxford Reference delineates between two sorts of Irish leannan sidhe stories. The first is the pattern weve outlined and what weve seen in our other faery-lover stories. A human and a faery fall in love”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“The leannan sidhe can be difficult to get started with. On the one hand”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“The story of Ethna”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Shortly after settling at the crossroads”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“This story ties back to witchcraft a little more in that were specifically dealing with The Queen of Elphame. Her land is between Heaven and Hell. Her relationship with Thomas is based on taking him as a human lover”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Our first example of a report of a faery encounter adds another element that we might consider similar to the relationship with a familiar or the tales of witch power we see historically. The story of Thomas the Rhymer is the account of an historical man who was believed to have lived for a time in the land of the faeries. Thomas Earlston lived in Berwickshire in the 13th century. ​One day”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Familiars are obtained through acts the magician enters into. Folklore varies as to how relationships with domestic spirits begin. Some folk beliefs include the idea that all homes have one of these spirits. Some believe that the spirits are the human souls of the original owner of the place or a servant or child who was killed there. In other cases”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Some authors”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“As we explore evidence about personal and household religion”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“The faery faith is sometimes treated as if it results from more established Pagan religions with large epic or cosmic Gods surviving by becoming something easier to overlook. Rather than larger-than-life figures like Zeus or Odin or the Dagda”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“Having children”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions

“While witch trial accounts tend to allege that witches had demons and devils as familiars”
― BJ Swain, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions