A comprehensive exploration of familiars and their many forms and powers * Explores witch's familiars in folklore, shamanic, and magical traditions around the world, including Africa, India, Scandinavia, ancient Greece, and China * Explains how familiars are related to shamanic power animals and how the witch draws on her personal sexual energy to give this creature its power * Examines the familiar in alchemical, Hermetic, and Egyptian magical literature,...