The Cunning Folks of the British Isles

In the British isle, especially, we often see these little spirits that we might identify as familiar today or were sometimes identified as familiar even then. I feel like it's good to talk about a specific example here, like we have Joan Peterson who we might be as a slayer right coming to to teach her magic at night. And then 16th century cunning woman Ursula Kemp's son said his mother kept four familiar, one was a great cat, one with a white lamb,. One was a black toad, and one with a black cat; suggesting these weren't entirely natural mundane animals.