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Bat (page 2)
In both ancient
Greece and Rome, it was thought
that sleep could be prevented either by placing the engraved figure of a bat under
the pillow, or by tying the head of a bat in a black bag and keeping it near
to the left arm. In the
Ivory Coast, even today many think
that bats are the spirits of the dead, and in
Madagascar, they are
assumed to be the souls of criminals,
sorcerers and the unburied dead.
In the
Tyrol it is believed
that the man who wears the left eye of a bat may become invisible, and in
Hesse
he who wears the heart of a bat bound to his arm with red thread will always
be lucky at cards. To the Chinese and the Polish, the bat means long life
and happiness, a good omen.
Wash your face in bat's blood, and you will be able to see in the dark; keep
a bat bone in your pocket will ensure good luck; powdered bat heart will
staunch bleeding or stop a bullet; bullets from a gun swabbed with a bat's
heart will always hit their target; bat's blood into someone's drink will
make them more passionate; stimulate a woman's desire by placing a clot of
bat blood under her pillow; use a hair wash of crushed bat wings in
coconut oil and it will prevent both baldness and graying of the hair; and the list goes on and on... how many wondrous and magical
uses
these small flying mammals have! Unfortunately for the bat, most of these
'wonderful' applications where its 'miraculous' properties are required, ensue its
demise.
Shakespeare cited bats and
witches in many of his plays. The "wool of bat" in the brew of
Macbeth's three witches is a notorious example of the connection, as is
Caliban's curse on
Prospero in
The Tempest:
"All the charms of
Sycorax, toads, beetles and bats,
light on you."
Some ancient
allegories about the bat
even made it to the Bible. The Hebrew word atalleph so rendered (Leviticus 11:19;
Deuteronomy 14:18) implies 'flying in the dark'. The bat is reckoned among the birds in
the list of unclean animals, and to cast idols to the 'moles and to the bats'
means to carry them into dark caverns or desolate places to which these
animals resort (Isaiah 2:20), i.e., to consign them to desolation or ruin.
See
Familiars,
Understanding Bats,
Bats of the World,
The Bat House Builder's Handbook,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Chakra Store,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group;
(2)
Bailey, Nancy (editor),
The Little Giant Encyclopedia of Spells and Magic,
Sterling; (3) Opie, Iona (editor),
A Dictionary of Superstitions,
Oxford University Press.
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