Ok, that was probably a misleading title. Here's the story of it: several years ago I was a teenager dabbling in witchcraft and very fond of the idea of having an animal to love and help with magic. So I attempted a familiar summoning spell for a cat. A couple years passed and I more or less forgot about having cast that spell.
And then a small grey, wild kitten showed up at the front door when my parents were out and I was the one to open the door and find it. It, being wild, immediately tried to run away, so I grabbed it cause who would let a tiny kitten just run off to goodness knows where and freeze or starve or get hit by a car - anyway. I grabbed the only part I could reach - it's back leg. And, of course, it turned around and bit me. My finger, specifically. Long story shortened: managed to pry the kitten off and get it in a cat cage. We already had four cats at this point, and it hadn't clicked for me yet that this kitten was probably the familiar I attempted to summon a year or more before. (Being that it was grey and fluffy and female and turned up at my doorstep like the spell said it would, I think there's a good case for this being the familiar).
So we couldn't keep the kitten. Passed it along to SPCA and the bite marks faded away.
Except for the last two years the same finger that was bitten is a bit swollen and has dry skin and blisters sometimes. I've tried the medical, scientific way already and now I'm reaching out in hopes that someone knows a way to apologise to my abandoned/refused familiar or has any ideas on what the hay I can do. Cause it's stressing me out that my familiar may be out there in another home but knowing it was refused.
And trust me, I've learnt my lesson on that. No summoning familiars unless I know I can take care of them.
Summoning familar spirits is not like owning a dog or cat as a family pet. Sites like reddit wrongly have a witchcraft thing called FamilarFriday, where everyone posts a picture of their household pat. That is not what a familar is. I don't know how you performed the spell or what the spell even was, if you would be considered a practicing witch in your teenage years, or if it was like how "newbie" witches are , casting spells to turn into a vampire, kind of thing. I'm not attempting to insult you, it's just if the spell worked you would have gotten a cat spirit, not like the a animal cat, like a spirit that is not human or animal that takes the form of a cat to help you with your practice depending on how you would have worked with it. It's likely that the scratches you received are simply mundane. Also, the spell could have "worked" in the sense you manifested an encounter with a cat of your desired description. So if it was a physical cat you likely manifested meeting it, but it would not be a familar because familiar's are spirits. Does that make sense? I hope that answers your questions.
Let me know if you don't understand something I wrote, sometimes it's hard to explain stuff in text because , you know, there's no face with it.
You're probably quite right. Just some coincidences and my over-active imagination running away with me. I think was I was 12-13 or something when I did the original 'spell'. Your explaination does make sense, and I think I agree with the manifesting a physical encounter. Thanks for the reply and info on familiars, I really appreciate it.
