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  • Demonology and devil-lore / Moncure D. Conway.
  • Demonology and devil-lore / Moncure D. Conway.
  • The ghost of a girl appearing to an old man surrounded by demons of conscience (?). Etching by A. Ashley.
  • Attributes of Putra-miṅ-sriṅ in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Putra-miṅ-sriṅ in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • A magician in his gothic study conjuring demons: a naked woman appearing from a mirror. Soft ground etching by F. Rops.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • Two men in the midst of the orgies of a witches' sabbath. Wood engraving.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • A man on his deathbed. Drawing attributed to H.P. Bone.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • Witchcraft: the devil talking to a gentleman and a judge (?) in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • The discouerie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of witches and witchmongers is notablie detected, the knauerie of coniurors, the impietie of inchantors, the follie of soothsaiers, the impudent falshood of cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent practices of Pythonists, the curiositie of figurecasters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggerlie art of Alcumystrie, the abhomination of idolatrie, the horrible art of poisoning, the vertue and power of naturall magike, and all the conueiances of legierdemaine and iuggling are deciphered. And many other things opened, which have long lien hidden, howbeit verie necessarie to be knowne. : Heerevnto is added a treatise vpon the nature and substance of spirits and diuels, &c: / all latelie written by Reginald Scot. Esquire.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • Witchcraft: a man on horseback visits a woman, while inside a house another woman points to a broken wheel. Woodcut, 1720.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • The certainty of the world of spirits. Fully evinced by unquestionable histories of apparitions and witchcrafts, operations, voices, etc. Proving the immortality of souls, the malice and miseries of the devils and the damned, and the blessedness of the justified / Written for the conviction of sadduces & infidels. By Richard Baxter.
  • De praestigiis daemonum, et incantationibus ac veneficiis libri sex, aucti et recogniti / [Johann Weyer].
  • Saint Michael the Archangel. Engraving after the Master E.S.
  • Witchcraft: a man on horseback. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Magicians leaving the wood where they successfully performed incantations. Etching by P.Sandby and E. Rooker, 1763, after J. Collins.
  • Job tormented by demons; his wife urges him to curse God. Line engraving by L. Vorsterman after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • A deathbed: a man breathes his last, the devil flies down and grabs his soul (in the form of a baby) from his mouth. Engraving, 16--.
  • Witchcraft: a ship being confronted by a sea-devil (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • Witchcraft: the devil bringing medicine to a man or woman in bed (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • A devil hacks a field with a scythe. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.