Familiar spirits in Biblical History

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What are Familiar spirits?
FAMIL'IAR SPIR'ITS
(from the Latin familiaris, "a household servant"). The phrase expressed the idea that necromancers had spirits at their command to wait upon them as servants. See Divination.

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