#three souls

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The Three Souls

Many witchcraft and pagan traditions have a conception of multiple souls. Understanding these ideas can help in your understanding of why we are able to do things we normally couldn’t in soul flight. Plus having a background knowledge if you want to look deeper, beyond my posts, knowing what these mean will help in your comprehension of more “advanced” texts.

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Contents:

Historical Beliefs

Middle Soul

Fetch

Upper Soul

Conclusion

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Historical Beliefs

According to Claude Lecouteux, professor of medieval literature and civilization at the Sorbonne, in his book "Witches, Werewolves and Fairies," there has long been a belief in a tri-part soul in northern Europe. Medieval Scandinavia and Germany had three names for different aspects of the human soul: Fylgja, Hugr, and Hamr. Thou he explains in that book as well as his book "The Return of the Dead," that "soul" is not a perfection translation for these three concepts. Even further back we see Plato's theory of the tripartite soul. He believed that every person had different amounts of each soul within them: reason, spirit, and appetite.

The 1600s saw a boom in the curiosity of the body. Doctor's who were just beginning to understand the human body, through rather morbid means, were beginning to link the soul to the brain; leaping off of classical ideas of the soul such as Plato's. Here we see the soul divided into three parts again: the rational soul, the sensible soul, and vegetal soul.

The triple soul, as a concept, has a long and varied history. It continues today as a concept in witchcraft traditions as well as a few religions.

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Fetch

The fetch is also known as the lower soul. Generally it’s thought to be our survival instincts and the part of us that connects more easily to children and animals. This is the part of the soul that is thought to leave a witch’s body and travel the worlds. It’s also known as a double as there is a history of people seeing a person in one place (their fetch) and the actual person in another around the same time. Also thought to be döpplegangers.

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Upper Soul

This part of the soul is thought to be connected to divinity, if you believe in that. Mat Auryn, in his book “Psychic Witch,” postulates that this part of the soul comes from a mix of past lives (why so many people can claim to have been Cleopatra in a past life). It’s this part of the soul that receives divine messages, that the lower soul then transcribes into symbols and messages that the middle soul can more easily understand.

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Middle Soul

This part of the soul is reading this post. Meta. This is the part of you that talks, walks, tastes, smells, feels, and creates magic. It’s a mix of the upper and lower souls and uses the other two to interpret life and meaning. This is the part of you that’s deciding if this post is full of shit or not. This is you.

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Conclusion

Technically, all three are you. In much of the folklore surrounding soul flight, the witch can be alive and breathing, sleeping soundly in bed, and still be off galavanting at the devils sacrament. So how are witches able to separate one of the souls and continue on living? Stay tuned and I will explain in another post.

Images:

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References:

Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages by Claude Lecouteux

The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind by Claude Lecouteux

Ancient Theories of the Soul

The Tripartite Theory of the Soul

Method in the Madness exhibit: The Three Souls

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Contextual points to keep in mind:

She has extremely defensive abilities and low offensive, but when a prey is weak enough, she can essentially trap and feed off them.

Even before becoming Espada, the two had a flimsy alliance. Grimmjow would kill and eat his fill of hollows and she would help and feed off his scraps. (Very hyena like behavior-which is her animal inspo)

She has always been extremely passive and never opposed Grimmjow, much less talk down to him or interfere with him.

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