I know that you had shat on spirit companion shops before for being scams but I want to address a myth about it but I can't write a paragraph on it. I ended up getting a familiar from online and a family member actually had seen her manifest multiple times. Her real form is a secretary bird,she has bitten me on the hand multiple times and she sometimes sits on my head. I've felt the familiar on my head/hand and someone saw her so is this one a real spirit? She came through reverse adoption.
Here are some of my thoughts on this matter:
1. Let me just get this out of the way: yes, it is possible to conjure a familiar or a spirit for another person, seat it in some vessel, and give it to them. There are techniques to do such a thing across cultures and systems of magic.
2. Spirit companion shops are not an example of this in the slightest. They absolutely are scams. That does not meant the person running them does not believe in their work; in other words, they likely do not see themselves as consciously fraudulent (though I’m sure know they are frauds and scam people anyway). But when you have someone who essentially knows no magic (though they might pretend/believe otherwise) offering to sell an assortment of imaginary friends to people, from spirits of various traditions they have no exposure to, to romance novel-type “vampire” and “demon” (oh god) “lovers”, fantasy and role-play inspired tropes and “species” of “fairies”, “dragons”, and whatever else, putting them in tacky jewelry and gemstones and then sending them off to people, it’s hard not to raise an eyebrow. In fact, it’s probably a good thing that such claims are false, because if any of these people were capable of summoning these spirits they’d quickly get devoured by them and find out that they are nothing like their paranormal romance books and TV series portray them to be in pop culture.
One google search of “haunted djinn” or something similar renders all these incredibly blatant fake results. If half of these “conjurers” could summon even one of the many “king and queen” djinns while knowing literally nothing about Arabic magic and the existing techniques to come into contact with such beings, they would be wealthy enough to not have to resort to selling Etsy jewelry as imaginary playmates. It’s frankly disgusting. Not to mention that there are no guidelines on safety, discerning lying/trickster spirits from ones that are benevolently disposed to people, how to get rid of and repel spirits, and so on.
3. Let us never forget the ability of people to convince themselves of utter nonsense. I once had the displeasure of happening upon an online group of incredibly mentally unstable teenagers who were utterly convinced they were not only “demonkin” but also “kin” literal fictional characters whom they claimed to not only hear the voices of but also feel their presences/touches. Keeping in mind, I had never heard of such a phenomena prior to being introduced to this hellsite by the other mods, whom I met off Tumblr. One can convince themselves of almost anything. Discerning what one is experiencing and verifying the efficacy and tangible reality of such experiences is another matter entirely.
4. If you lucked upon someone who was able to send you a genuine spirit, it is important to have the discernment to figure out if the spirit is who they say they are, or if they’re essentially a psychic shell that anything could inhabit and take the form of what you expect them to look like. From your description it seems like you’re having experiences of touching and feeling this spirit, whatever it may be. But can you communicate with it? Can it bring you knowledge you otherwise would not have? Can it bring you boons such as money, grant you success, teach you hidden names and gestures by which to call it, explain its function and how it came to be associated with you? Or is it some sort of being that for whatever reason has chosen to go along with its given description, though its true nature is more malevolent?
5. The fact that you mention it having bitten you multiple times is not exactly helping the case.
Essentially, my stance that such shops are scams remains. Whether or not someone ends up with some sort of genuine presence is almost irrelevant when one can do nothing with it and does not know how to discern its character, intentions, nature, and so on. For all we know, it could be a parasitical spirit hoping to get offerings and sustenance and will role play along with whatever form is expected of them. If you are fortunate enough that this is not the case, it’s up to you to determine what it is you’ve invited into your home and exactly how beneficial it is by verifying and testing its claims and abilities.
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