Usage of "familiar spirits"

русский

фамильяр

португальский

familiar

испанский

espíritu familiar

каталонский

esperit familiar

Folkloric entity that takes the form of an animal but is said to be a supernatural being that assists certain humans.

фамильяр

Использование термина familiar spirits на английском

Iacoomis stood firm, proclaiming that his God was greater than all of Tequamuck's familiar spirits. 
 Caleb's crossing 

But our angekoks believe in torngaks, familiar spirits, which they say meet and talk with them. 
 Red Rooney: The Last of the Crew 

They fully believed in witchcraft or conjuring, and in the power to work evil through familiar spirits. 
 The Log School-House on the Columbia 

And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land. 
 The Bible, King James version, Book 9: 1 Samuel 

Secondly, It is a like evil to seek to them that have familiar spirits (Lev. 
 Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II / With an Account of Salem Vi... 

All her operations were being gone through to call up certain familiar spirits whose presence she desired. 
 The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition... 

We'll surely see some familiar spirits soon. 
 Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus 

The Bible speaks of dealing with " familiar spirits." 
 The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation 

Do not enough terrors encompass us that you must needs call on your familiar spirits to add to them? 
 Morning Star 

The other gods besides Oro were numerous, and there were also many animals supposed to be possessed with familiar spirits. 
 Pioneers and Founders / or, Recent Workers in the Mission field 

These Angekkok or Angakut have familiar spirits called Torngak, a word connected with the name of their chief spiritual being, Torngarsak. 
 Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) 

Brendel was here with her, and Flidais as well, familiar spirits never far from her side, never speaking unless she spoke to them. 
 The darkest road 

In their troubles they sought the aid of the " familiar spirits" that peeped and muttered through speaking, writing, and rapping mediums. 
 California Sketches, New Series 

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. 
 The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition... 

Manasseh, a subsequent king in Jerusalem, "observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards, and so provoked God to anger." 
 Lives of the Necromancers 

They also pretended to power by means of certain familiar spirits, to foretell future events, and even in some cases to control them.... 
 Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) 