In 2001 Lurie published a memoir, " Familiar Spirits ", recounting a decades-long friendship with poet James Merrill ( 1926 1995 ) and his partner David Jackson ( 1922 2001 ).
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They claimed that the white mice he kept were his familiar spirits, and that they could not be got rid of after his death until they were held over running water.
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Meaning for the first time, mind you, it was permissible to enter into evidence testimony which in effect said, ` A familiar spirit entered into me or into somebody . "'
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Further, these spirits must deliver a number of familiar spirits ( four principal familiars, and several more associated with a set of magical word-square talismans provided in the Abramelin's Book Four ).
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The new Rolls-Royce Phantom, with its familiar Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament but the guts of a BMW, made its first public appearance Friday since the German automaker bought the legendary brand name.
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The second then proceeds to argue that these familiar spirits were not simply a part of popular folklore, but reflected the existence of a living visionary tradition, which was shamanistic and pre-Christian in origin.
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I also understood that because I had been raised up and lived under this spirit, I had married out of a familiar spirit, in other words, something I was used to and attracted to unknowingly.
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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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Although the 1648 law that defined a witch as one who " hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit " had been suspended ten years earlier, association with a familiar spirit was used in the Salem trials as evidence to convict suspected witches.
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Although the 1648 law that defined a witch as one who " hath or consulteth with a familiar spirit " had been suspended ten years earlier, association with a familiar spirit was used in the Salem trials as evidence to convict suspected witches.
