Today we are going to talk about the mysterious night creature, the bat. We will explore the meanings of a bat in witchcraft, its symbolism and much more.

Origins and meaning in antiquity

Of course, the bat is not the most beloved animal, perhaps for all the sinister legends that see it as the protagonist, along with witches, vampires and ghosts. Perhaps even for the alleged vice of sticking to women’s hair.

However, on the sacred plane, it is a positive animal, with the intelligence and wisdom attributed to it some of its essential qualities.

This is because they can move without colliding with obstacles, although they are blind. Its symbolism connects again with the second view and the faculty of precognition.

In Greece it is called «Nukteris» by Nyks, night. The Erinyes, ruthless avengers, look like an old woman with the head of bat, with snakes instead of hair.

In China, the bat is a symbol of long life and prosperity. Five bats arranged in the form of a star include the five states of happiness (Wu Fu), which are wealth, longevity, tranquility, virtue and a good death.

According to Agrippa, the bat is sacred to Saturnay his blood is useful for the preparation of ointments capable of evoking spirits.

Among the Native Americans, the bat enjoyed great esteem for its marked sensitivity and represented intuition, sleep and vision. Shamans invoked their spirit when an energy called «night vision» was needed, capable of revealing any arcane. In primitive Christianity, bats represented charity, while in medieval bestiaries they symbolized lust and sinners who lived in the dark. The reason is that bats mate with both males and females.

In the West, it is associated with dark and underground forces and, consequently, with demons.

It is not surprising that the devil is represented with bat wings. This is the case of the arcane fifteen number of the Marseille tarot. The same negative association began the habit of nailing bats at the doors of the houses to scare away evil spirits. Another superstition was to bring the right eye of a bat to make its bearer invisible.

As an animal of power, it symbolizes the internal search. His medicine is consciousness. Invoke your spirit when you feel the need to reflect and understand your deepest wishes.

If you decide to work with this tote dreams, they will test you, because it demands the maximum commitment to spiritual growth. In dreams, he foreshadows well for pregnant women and sometimes indicates the need to retire to meditate to access inner truths.

Bats as ancestors of vampires

Until recently, the witches were believed to drink the children’s blood or used it to obtain magical filters. The figure of the modern vampire derives from the Germanic / Eslava tradition. It was said that when the body was not yet purified, the soul was still linked to him, these decomposed bodies could only be kept drinking the blood of the living.

Burchard de Worms (Burcardo Di Worms) in his «Liber Decretorum» wrote that it was a good idea stabbing women who died in childbirth because the child could have become a vampire due to his hunger for life. Even excommunicated dead could become blood sucks.

The Romanians call the vampires «Strigois», which means cry, because they produced deafening shouts during their clashes on the night of San Andrés (November 30), which is considered a magical night. Before they called them «necurerat» (suicide), which in the deformed version «Nosferat» has become a usual term.

Symbolic meaning of bats

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Meaning of bats in witchcraft

The bat is an animal of power that will faithfully accompany you throughout your life. Although it is not your main guide animal, it is never a passage animal. Once your energy has entered your life, you will never leave.

Sometimes, people who have not had a bat since birth, enter their energy when important changes are about to occur in their lives.

These people must prepare for a transition period that will take them to a new world, since the bat is presented to help overcome the transition period in the best possible way.

If you met one or you appeared in a dream or meditation, it means that something important is about to end in your life, a job, a relationship or possibly anything else, including bad habits or lifestyles that are harmful to you or to end how to see yourself or see life.

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The bat will help you in the transition from your ancient life to a new one, supporting you the best you can with your arcane knowledge.

The message you send you is that you are attentive to your instincts and your intuition, that you listen and interpret the signals that occur, so you can move with conscience and get the best result.
He also advises you to ask those who love you, your family and your friends, so that they can be close to you and take care of you during the transition phase.

If the first contact with her has occurred when an unexpected event has happened to you, when you have already suffered a detachment from someone or something, or when you have understood that something in your life was close to you, then it means that you are willing to face your most intimate fears and let them go. It is when we have lost all hope and that we are willing to give off from our ego.

The bat is telling you that you must kill your old ego to be born again. You have to fail to succeed. You have lost and you must accept it to win. It is true, you are touching background, but the bat is a symbol of good luck and if it appeared to you, hidden from the darkness, it means that the results of the changes you will have to make will be positive.

If you follow their teachings and trust them, if you let their energy enter your life, then you will go to the surface and be new man or woman.

The bat does not admit cowardice, if you find the value to enter him in the deepest meanders of the dark worlds below, you will see the universe without illusions.

If you are willing to face your most intimate fears and look inside you honestly, then you will help you and be reborn, you will be a winner. It teaches you that if your life has dissolved like snow in the sun, it is because you need to give off an attitude or a situation.

For witches, bats are usually spiritual guides and real people are considered, more than a simple animal.

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In any case, whether the bat is your main power animal as if in one way or another it has become one of your guide animals, you should also know:

• Symbolically they are considered the great teacher, they enter the bowels of Mother Earth and know their secrets. Mother Earth whispers in their ear, and you can learn the secrets of creation
• Thanks to their very developed senses and ultrasound, they know how to behave in any situation, and you can ask for advice to solve anything
• It is the only mammal that flies, sleeps and gives light downhill, and is very long to be so small. This means that he has the power to act on the report not yet created, and bring to light what he wants, even despite classical universal laws. Subverts the order at will and does so because he knows the deepest secrets
• It is a natural insecticide and therefore can get rid of any negative presence for you
• It can help you find your true potential and express it
• You can ask for help to discover mysteries that have not yet been revealed.
• It helps you reach the highest tops of knowledge and enjoy freedom
• It gives you the ability to be reborn after crises and renew
• It pushes you to leave old patterns and habits behind, to always be a winner
• It helps you communicate so that your loved ones feel loved and then you can ask for help
• You can ask them to show you the truth
• You can ask them to show you what will happen, and you can agree with them, what will be
• You can invoke it when you need value

If the bat is your power animal or one of your guide animals and you are not following its medicine, all the negative aspects of its energy will manifest and experience:

• Cowardice
• Your body will age faster
• Inability to get out of situations in which you do not feel comfortable.
• Bad…