What's Your Spirit Animal?
By: Zoe Samuel
Estimated Completion Time 5 min
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About This Quiz
The idea of a spirit animal comes from a Native American tradition, though it is not common to all Native American faiths and cultures (as there are many, and they are far from homogeneous). It has appeared throughout mythology and even pops up today in pop culture, for example in the "daemon" that is the manifestation of a person's soul in Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Indeed, the idea of a Patronus in Harry Potter - a protective force that appears as an animal and correlates to a person's inner character - is a direct nod to the concept of the spirit animal.
How do you know what your spirit animal is? It's not just an animal that you like, or with which you feel some kinship because it has a gesture or a feature that looks like you. It goes much deeper than that. A spirit animal is a creature who faces the world the same way you do: who is social or antisocial, fearful or bold, playful or serene just as you are. It's the animal species whose Platonic ideal would be most likely to choose the way you do in any given situation. So let's find out which of the many souls in the animal kingdom has managed to sneak just a little of itself into your body!
START QUIZ
Do you like to create things?
I don't do that but I love to help others, mostly with moral support and encouragement.
I built my own house, so there's that.
Where would you ideally live?
On a farm with lots of animals.
What is your preferred weather?
I love it all as long as I get to do out in it.
Are you scary?
I am more scared than scary.
When my friends are threatened.
Yes, but I really don't know what I did to get this reputation.
No, but I'm very imposing.
What do you fear?
Change. Surprises. That thing over there which I've seen 100 times but the light caught it just so and - ahhh!
What's your favorite food?
Any good hearty meat dish.
Anything really. I have an adventurous palate.
What's the best way to really piss you off?
Make me spend all day in a confined space.
Get in my way when I'm minding my own business.
Constantly talking about how great I am while ruining all my fun by building cities where I need open space.
What's your weakness?
I love too openly and sacrifice too readily.
I do not understand my enemies.
I'm not very kind or warm.
What's your secret skill?
I can jump many times my own height.
What virtue would you choose?
What sin would you choose?
What's your bed made of?
I can sleep standing up but I like a nice squashy surface for lying on, just in case.
My bed is a big soft cushiony one but I much prefer to share a family member's bed if I can.
I built it myself when I designed and made my house!
I like to sleep high off the ground.
Name an achievement that makes you proud.
I learn new skills when I'm taught well, and enjoy making progress with my friends.
I take care of those around me. I lift them when their spirits are down and I celebrate their joys with them.
I built my own house and it is absolutely beautiful.
I get by in a hostile world.
What movie would you choose?
What city's sports team represents you?
Do people underestimate you often?
Kinda the opposite honestly.
What's your signature greeting?
I toss my head and stamp a foot.
I leap on my friends and hug and kiss them vigorously.
I make a nice present for my friends and clean their house for them.
I circle my friends while watching them with laser-like focus.
What's your policy on monogamy?
It's for chumps. I like matriarchy in which the man is mostly there for the sperm. It is a common misconception that he is in charge.
In captivity I settle into an alpha male structure, but my natural preference is a nuclear family unit led by a male and female pair.
It's ridiculous. I have a kajillion kids and no idea who the other parent is.
I mate for life and spend forever with my partner.
Do you like to travel?
Yes, with a group, to places I've been before.
Definitely if I'm going with my family.
Nope. I spent too much time working on my home.
Far and wide. I can be a loner sometimes.
What job would your spirit human have?
Laborer, trucker, dock worker, etc.
Cop, bouncer, bodyguard, that sort of thing.
Architect, graphic designer, or gallery curator.
You fall in a hole. How do you get out?
You see someone who has some food you want. Do you...
Bite them until they give it to me.
Ask them very nicely, but very insistently, if I may have some.
Steal a piece while they're not looking.
How's your work ethic?
Good as long as I have someone to remind me what to do.
As long as I believe in what I'm working on, I will work myself to death.
Very good. I don't require much supervision either.
Eh. I do what I must to get by.
What's your parenting style?
A little indulgent, and very loving.
Dedicated and protective.
Free-range, totally negligent, call it what you like.
Protective, but it's really my job to see that they gain independence as fast as possible.
How do you handle increased responsibility?
It's OK ,but I need to be properly guided through it.
I always rise to the occasion if I can! I don't want to let anyone down.
I work harder and build more.
I have never had this problem.
Who or what is your natural enemy?
How set are you in your ways?
I can always learn with the right encouragement.
Over a certain age, sort of like stone really.
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