Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone here could recommend any lit. re: Spirit-Animals and Familiars sharing traits with entopic phenominon? I ask, because one hypothesis I want to test is that the Familiar visionary encounters may be an entopitic phenominon as described by Lewis-Williams' three-stage model of a neurologically engrained visionary model. I came to this query when looking at a famous depiction of Matthew Hopkins with alleged witches and the Familiars which seem to often share this bizarre amalgum of various animals or species, etc. So...I am looking for trial ercord accounts from Europe and Britain, as well as Familiar encounters from Asia and elsewhere, not to mention encounters of spirit-animals that seem to blend into various species (think, perhaps, the American "jackalope", etc.! *G*). Can anyone direct me to any source-material or ethnographic studies, and second hand sources, please?

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Wade