Ferrets and witches

Apparently back in those days, most people kept livestock as animals but the witches had little animals like cats, mice, certain birds and also ferrets, which were called familiars.

These little creatures all had names and were kept in boxes or pots lined with sheep’s wool.  They were fed on milk, bread (maybe that’s where the idea to feed ferrets bread & milk came from?!), raw meat and also … dum de dum dum DUMMMMM … the witch’s blood!  And, of course, these critters were used for working magic.

When witches were persecuted, the poor little creatures they had living with them were also burned at the stake, or thrown into bags and chucked into the lake to drown.

What a thing!  It certainly is interesting to track down all these old superstitions and try to find out the reasons why people thought that way … and once I have the facts sorted out, they will be going up on my page.

I am really glad that we’re free of all these ridiculously silly stories about familiars because if we weren’t, someone would probably be knocking on my front door and accusing me of being an gnarly old witch and hang me for talking to my ferrets!

Well, time for me to jump on my broomstick, fly to the kitchen and prepare a steaming pot of eye of newt and tail of frogs and salamander for Philip’s dinner tonight!

Bwahahahahahahaha!!  ;-))