I am Wiccan, my familiar is the crow. Whenever I am sad or in need of a support, a crow will show up very close to me. Also I'm specifically drawn to the film, "The Crow."

One particular crow with white tips on his wings quite often sits on the nearest lamp post to my home.

Blessings and light to all.

I'm a wiccan and have never had a real animal companion that i have called my familiar but in about two weeks i will be getting a cat from a friend of mine. I'm excited and worried about this. i stress thinking about how to care for a familiar.

I'm not sure i need answers on how to treat a familiar from just a normal house pet! and does it matter what breed of cat it is to be eligible to be a familiar?

There is nothing that I have found that would support in Wicca that a familiar is, or ever was, an incarnate. Reincarnation is more of a Buddhist belief, I think. Familiars have always to my knowledge been free spirits. Just like the old saying, If you love something set it free and if it comes back to you, so mote it be. Although I do respect your connection. Blessed Be!

I'm sorry for the loss of your familiar. I lost my familiar about five years ago. He was the puppy at the pound that I didn't want, but was repeatedly drawn back to. I picked the puppy that was cutest to me, the one that jumped and played. Turtle, my familiar sat and continuously made eye contact me.

After trying to walk away a number of times with the other puppy, I gave up and took Turtle. He was with me for 16 years. He got cancer in his leg and a year later I had to let him go. I sat on the floor held him in the vet's office while they injected him and the whole time never broken eye contact, till he gone and all I could say to him was "thank you" and I knew he understood.

The pain I felt was more severe than I could ever have imagined. After about a year I tried to "replace" him. I realized after finding a new home for the second puppy I got (1 adopted, the other bought) that what Turtle was to me was much more than a pet and couldn't be replaced. About two years later, my cat Chipmunk, found me. I moved into my new house, and there she was. I didn't feed or pet her, I'm allergic to cats and I didn't want her to keep coming back. Needless to say, she never left.

Every morning I'd leave for work and she was right there on my front porch and when I came home at night she was right there waiting for me. She would stand on her hind legs and put her font paws on my leg as if she wanted to be picked up. I would shake her off, say good-bye and go into my house. I'm in the Army and when home for leave for three weeks and she was right there when I got home. I let her in and called her my pet, until I noticed the similarities between her and Turtle.

Oddities like not drinking water from her bowl, only out of the sink. Jumping in the shower with me, yes in the water playing with my feet. The way she stared at me, never breaking eye contact. I was taught that a familiar was a small piece of its woman's soul and it finds you over and over again.

I've had at least 30 pets through the years, cats, dogs, rats, chinchillas, ferrets, a skunk, a squirrel. I loved them all and they seemed to love me, but none were my familiar. I find peace in the belief that he/she will always find me.

It might not be when I think the time is right, but my familiar will always come back. I just hope next time it's an animal that doesn't make me sneeze and runny.

I just found this post about familiars. Mine is a black cat. I have 3 ladies and two boy black cats total, all loyal and very protective of me. Now, my familiar has had kittens. I plan to spay her in the next few weeks, but worry a lot as I have tried to give most of her kittens away. It is difficult, as people do not want black cats. They've only brought me good, nothing evil or bad luck as people think. I'm not a crazy cat lady, but only two have found homes. I've refused two others who felt very wrong to me. Shelters don't want them, and they could not thrive in a small cage. Black cats are good luck, but the 'familiar' aspect plays a part and that is what I think people have a fear of. I feel blessed, not cursed, in my Wiccan faith.

I'm a clairvoyant (sense the unseen, glean people's thoughts and emotions, and find lost people and animals). it's odd that im a male and have a strong connection. And i do have a familiar -- my black lab molly. My question is: is it possible that a human spirit that you loved and left the world before their time come back to you as a familiar? I get the same aurora and personality from molly as i did from my twin sister jessica. and it's odd that molly is a little over 12 years now and the vet says she is as young as a pup inside. Together molly and i have helped the columbus pd solve over 100 cases.

anon31460 well hun... in a situation like this it is difficult. some witches only ever have one in their life. you will know when and if another comes along. he or she will just draw to you as mine have me. as for why someone would send you theirs. it is a gift from them -- a very sincere gift. the thing is their familiar may not be yours. i am very sorry to break that to you. good luck in your search and i do hope you find another. i would be lost without mine. feel free to contact me.

to answer your question as i know it curious19. i come from a long lineage of witches. and dating back as far as i know of from family and reading the cat is the most common familiar. in my 40 years i have had 2. both cats. once as a newborn and now as an adult. my familiar i have now goes through every emotion i do. he watches over me constantly. he is the greatest familiar in the world. he is my youngest child. lol hope this helps you out some. any fellow witches wish to contact me feel free.

My familiar was a dog. Because he was a large dog, he had to stay outside, and he tended to get out of the fence. So he was put on a chain about a year ago. He somehow managed to hang himself on his chain yesterday. It's quite suspicious, considering he never goes to the spot where he was found and I caught a few guys bothering him just a few days ago... So, yeah, I'm in need of a new familiar. And antidepressants...><

My familiar has died, does anyone have any information on this situation? Like, what they would do long ago if their familiar died, does another come...etc.?

Does anyone know why someone(you don't know)would send you their Familiar?

Does anybody know what the first ever recorded witches familiar was? I'm not a witch, I'm actually a spectral photographer. But I was asked by a friend and I am afraid to say that I dont know much about witchcraft. Sorry if I used the wrong phrasing. It's just simple equivocation. My sincerest apologies if I offend anyone. But I must say that now I am interested, and have to know the answer...

I am a wiccan and i love my familiar. Hes a cat, and i call him kizmet, pretty kittie, kizzie met, and of course, kitty. I love him, and i have a special bond with him, i worry about him when he's in bad condition, and i let him sleep on my bed. I'd be sad if he didnt came back whenever he runs out. Blessed be.

I do believe in Familiars as I have one. She is a cat and is very special to me. She is not bad, in fact, she is the furthest thing from evil. I am a solitary practitioner within the Wiccan faith, Thanks for letting me comment. Blessed Be!