1
James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness, 71-72.
2
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 3.
3
Helen Parish, “Paltrie Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasils”, 11.
4
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 92-96.
5
Ibid, 63.
6
Ibid, 82-83.
7
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets, 61.
8
Boria Sax, “The Magic of Animals: English Witch Trials in the Perspective of Folklore,” 318-319.
9
Ibid, 109-111.
10
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets, 4, 13; Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 109.
11
James Sharpe, Instruments of Darkness, 71.
12
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets, 47, 58.
13
Boria Sax, “The Magic of Animals: English Witch Trials in the Perspective of Folklore,” 327-328.
14
Helen Parish, “Paltrie Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasils”, 5.
15
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 32-41.
16
Aleksander Pluskowski, ed., Breaking and Shaping Beastly Bodies,” 2.
17
Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
18
Ibid, 60-80.
19
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 21.
20
Emma Wilby develops the analogy between indigenous shamanistic belief systems and practices and familiar
beliefs and practices. That European familiar beliefs were folkloric nature and grounded in an animist belief system
synchronous with Christianity is assumed here based on Wilby’s ethnographic argument. For more information, see
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 50-146.
21
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 8.
22
Roberto González, “The Conceptual Bases of Zapotec Farming and Foodways,” 16.
23
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 16.
24
Sophie Page & Brigitte Resl, ed., “Good Creation and Demonic Illusions: The Medieval Universe of Creatures” In
A Cultural History of Animals. Vol. 2, “In the Medieval Age,” 53-54.
25
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 21.
26
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 18-19.
27
Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets, 26-27.
28
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 151.
29
Helen Parish, “Paltrie Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasils”, 2-3.
30
Agustín Fuentes, "NATURALCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN BALI,” 608.
31
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 123.
32
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 119-120.
33
Helen Parish, “Paltrie Vermin, Cats, Mise, Toads, and Weasils”, 10.
34
Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits, 170-171.
35
Boria Sax, “The Magic of Animals: English Witch Trials in the Perspective of Folklore,” 317.