Other religious and folkloric traditions view the life of the human individual as bound up with that of a plant or animal: if one is destroyed the other dies as well. In some traditions, this is confined to the familiar or guardian of a witch or shaman; in others, it is a relationship possible for anyone. An example of the latter relationship is nagualism, a phenomenon found among the aboriginals of Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. Nagualism is the belief that there exists a nagual—an object or, more often, an animal—that stands in a parallel relationship to a person. ...(100 of 22834 words)