#familiars

[artist-kreating-stuff]

A puma.

Pretty cool for a familiar, but I’m allergic to cats…

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

[adoriels-tears-if]

Imagining someone with a giraffe, rhino, hippo, or another such creature as a familiar. No need for magic when u got straight hands

Haha yes indeed some Familiars by themselves can be quite a deterrent.

Especially since Familiars tend to be more massive than their lambda counterparts.

However, I'd like to point out that to accommodate their Familiars, Hearts often settle where their Souls is most at ease.

So you're not likely to come across a giraffe in Northview, for example. The only place where it's a bit of a menagerie is at the academy. There, the climate varies for all beings according to their preference.

[weirdlookindog]

Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) - Scenes of Witchcraft: Evening, c. 1649 [detail]

[witch-of-lightanddark]

[sarcasticsweetlara]

The cornsnake would be so useful

just having some fun with interesting fantasy imagery! Give it a reblog, if you play, please? And tell me WHY you picked what you picked if you want?

[alexkolesar]

My centaur familiar and associated icons for the Boneyard coliseum venue update for flightrising.com! (Any similarities to bone themed cavaliers is purely coincidental, I mean he's not even wearing sunglasses)

[catsofyore]

Cats dancing in the Witches' Cove! 16th century. Source.

[childofthewolvess]

Reasons why I think every witch/pagan should have a familiar spirit

There’s so many animal spirits out there that would love a human companion 🐺(coming from an animal spirit worker)!!! They are eager to help out practitioners in exchange for knowledge about their species.

You learn so much about an animal and its importance in the real ecological world 🌎 when you have a familiar spirit. You’re spreading your love and raising awareness for our ecosystems.

They’re multi-belief friendly! ☮️ You don’t need to be religious to believe in spirits or energy. They don’t belong to one particular religion. Spirits are an open practice, especially spirit guides!

Familiars can help you with so many things across a broad range of practices 🔮 - protection, aide in spells, a teacher, etc. They truly have so much to offer in the realm of witchcraft.

They’re completely unique to you as the practitioner 🐈‍⬛ - you are the only person/human the animal spirit is working with. They’re on-call and always there when you need them. Their loyalty is outstanding, they won’t leave your side as long as you don’t leave theirs.

They can help to protect your pets and creatures already in your life! 🦮 For instance, my familiars protect my service dog.

They’re beginner friendly 🌸, and can teach you a lot about spirit work in a safe way!

For those doing deity work, they can help to deliver messages from your deities 🏛️ in a clear way!

Having a trustworthy spirit companion is one of the most helpful tools you can gain 🧙‍♀️when exploring the realm of the astral as well as in any practice that requires clair-anything.

Seriously, who doesn’t want a friendly animal spirit companion? 🦝I can’t imagine any downside, and they really help you to learn about the natural world from a different perspective 🫶🏻

[havic-fr]

Putting these here because they got eaten by the Discord image breakage, but I made some little "fiona recolors" that don't exist! Feel free to use them in bios!

Original familiar images (c) Stormlight Workshop

[junkmixart]

A man's best friend 

LINKTREE

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Familiars magic explained 101 by @weflaps-blog

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[franticbindings]

I won't hug you because of everything that's happened between us recently, but the little furry animal that is symbolically an extension of my own being can jump into your arms and lick your face.

[inkubuzzz]

okay this popped into my head and demanded to be heard:

modern magic au moshang. shang qinghua is a witch, and in this au witches generally try to summon a familiar in their 20s. these familiars can be any magical creature, from a normal animal with magic abilities to a phoenix to, yes, a demon, whether that demon is more like an animal or more like a person. familiars, however, can deny the binding, since it’s more like an offer than a demand.

shang qinghua manages to summon mobei jun, somehow. he freaks the fuck out because what!! how did he manage to summon a very infamous demon king??? what????

and even more baffling, mobei jun doesn’t decline the binding!! who knows why?? (possibly reincarnation au? mbj knows who sqh is but not the other way around? idk working it out) and instead he just takes over sqh’s apartment. sqh is stressed ™️, as he often is. he goes onto witch forums for advice and everyone else is also baffled except for shen yuan, whose like “lmao same thing happened to me” and sqh is just ????

they bond over inexplicably having demon lord familiars while sqh tries to figure out what the hell is going on

yes i do plan on writing this. very soon. i may or may not be putting everything to the side (except my dragon!mbj fic) in order to work on this one instead.

[weirdlookindog]

Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) - To the Festival, 1934