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Meanings of familiar spirits in English
Folkloric entity that takes the form of an animal but is said to be a supernatural being that assists certain humans.
Synonyms
Examples for "familiar"
Examples for "familiar"
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The list was long and familiar: Be authentic; inspire purpose; embrace uncertainty.
2
They'd done their homework, said a second source familiar with the situation.
3
Instead, fun means deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new way.
4
The company is Actavis Plc, a source familiar with the situation said.
5
Some commodities jobs have gone, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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For all their strength, however, the familiars also suffered from her weaknesses.
2
Before she could question his statement, the familiars charged at one another.
3
I thought that business about witches and familiars was a human myth.
4
The same is also true of elemental archetypes, familiars, and other archetypes.
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I know you and your familiars, and he glared at the Prioress.
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The other man is a familiar spirit; he brought him from Coromandel.
2
Raphael, my familiar spirit, will hold the star for your guidance.
3
There shall not be found with thee... a consulter with a familiar spirit.
4
Perhaps I keep a familiar spirit, or perhaps I read things in the stars.
5
Amel, the furious familiar spirit of the witch Mekare, sought to punish the Queen.
Usage of familiar spirits in English
1
Iacoomis stood firm, proclaiming that his God was greater than all of Tequamuck's familiar spirits.
2
But our angekoks believe in torngaks, familiar spirits, which they say meet and talk with them.
3
They fully believed in witchcraft or conjuring, and in the power to work evil through familiar spirits.
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And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.
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Secondly, It is a like evil to seek to them that have familiar spirits (Lev.
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All her operations were being gone through to call up certain familiar spirits whose presence she desired.
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We'll surely see some familiar spirits soon.
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The Bible speaks of dealing with " familiar spirits."
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Do not enough terrors encompass us that you must needs call on your familiar spirits to add to them?
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The other gods besides Oro were numerous, and there were also many animals supposed to be possessed with familiar spirits.
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These Angekkok or Angakut have familiar spirits called Torngak, a word connected with the name of their chief spiritual being, Torngarsak.
12
Brendel was here with her, and Flidais as well, familiar spirits never far from her side, never speaking unless she spoke to them.
13
In their troubles they sought the aid of the " familiar spirits" that peeped and muttered through speaking, writing, and rapping mediums.
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The sorceress, having consulted her familiar spirits, answered that Natholocus would die a violent death by the hand of one of his most intimate friends.
15
Manasseh, a subsequent king in Jerusalem, "observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards, and so provoked God to anger."
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They also pretended to power by means of certain familiar spirits, to foretell future events, and even in some cases to control them....
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