The Importance of Animals in Witchcraft

The existence of malevolent supernatural beings or spirits that assisted or represented witches in their magic and preference, preference, preferentially. The fact that these beings were usually referred to as imps also indicates some ambiguity in the popular mind concerning whether such creatures existed independently of the witch or alien offshoots of their own persona. So we have such ideas according to anthropologists or nearly universal among shamanistic cultures throughout the world. And one example I'm going to give is the people's living in Mexican province of Chiapas believe that everybody possesses a soul animal.

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