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A bat and three fully dressed birds flying by moonlight. Watercolour by G. Hope Tait, ca. 1900.

A dream: an owl flies overhead, while large and small figures stand by. Drawing attributed to Thomas Uwins.

An evil man, representing medicine and religion (?), gloats over the death of the freedom of the individual in Switzerland to consume absinthe, represented as a green woman stabbed by a cross. Colour lithograph after A.-H. Gantner, 1910.

A winged man grabbing a young naked woman by the hand while another sits reading a book surrounded by owls and bats. Etching by J.M. Martínez Espinosa after F. Goya.

Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.

Cupid leading a lame boy through a forest, watched by demons and animals. Watercolour by H.M. Brock, 1907.

Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

C'rona pandemic comics / by Bob Hall, Judy Diamond, Liz VanWormer, Judi gaiashkibos ; art by Bob Hall, Henry Payer, Bob Camp ; production design by Aaron Sutherlen.

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Top, a barbastelle bat; bottom, a pipistrelle bat. Engraving by J.C. Baquoy after Buvée l'Ameriquain, 1760.

A bat. Wood-engraving by T. Bewick, 1789.

Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.

C'rona pandemic comics / by Bob Hall, Judy Diamond, Liz VanWormer, Judi gaiashkibos ; art by Bob Hall, Henry Payer, Bob Camp ; production design by Aaron Sutherlen.

Heads of a horse shoe bat and a common bat. Drawing, c. 1789.