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The name given to a SPIRIT companion, usually in animal form, whoaids or attends the needs of WITCHES. Familiars are also said to be given to witches by the DEVIL  as their companions and helpers.The word is derived from the Latin familiaris, meaning 'belonging to a household'. A familiar is thought to have magical power and to offer protection from danger to their master or mistress. The most common familiars are cats, followed by dogs, birds, hares, snakes and frogs or toads. At the height of the seventeenth century witch paranoia a lone woman owning a black cat was enough ground to convict her of witchcraft.