A woodcut from a 1720 history of “witches and wizards” from Wellcome Library.
Also from Smithsonian Magazine’s How New Printing Technology Gave Witches Their Familiar Silhouette.
Category: art
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16th Century Alien Sighting?
Basel Broadsheet, 1566 Residents of Basel, Switzerland experienced something in the sky at dawn on August 7, 1566. The image above is a representation – here’s a description from the Basel gazette:
At the time when the sun rose, one saw many large black balls which moved at high speed in the air towards the sun, then made half-turns, banging one against the others as if they were fighting a battle out a combat, a great number of them became red and igneous, thereafter they were consumed and died out.
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The Witches Procession
Agostino Musi, The Carcass (The Witches Procession), 1520–1527 -
GPK: Juicy Jessica
I love how this Garbage Pail Kids card is reminiscent of Little Shop of Horrors.
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XIII Death
Visconti-Sforza Tarot Card, ca. 1450–1480
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Death, Famine, War and Plague
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer, 1498 -
Mephistopheles Flying Over the City
By Eugene Delacroix, 1828 Lord of the host, Mephistopheles is a demon featured in German folklore. He originally appeared in literature as the demon in the Faust legend, and he has since appeared in other works as a stock character version of the Devil.
From Fandom Demonology
The Devil's Muse 