Familiar Spirit - Relationship Between Magical Practitioner and Familiar

Relationship Between Magical Practitioner and Familiar

Using her studies into the role of witchcraft and magic in Britain during the Early Modern period as a starting point, the historian Emma Wilby examined the relationship that familiar spirits allegedly had with the witches and cunning-folk in this period.

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