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  • A devil buggering a man. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Serowe, Botswana: an African devil dancer wearing a headdress. Albumen print.
  • Saint Francis of Assisi tempted by the Devil on mount La Verna. Etching by R. Sciaminossi after J. Ligozzi, ca. 1612.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • Devil's Kantoor, South Africa: a rocky slope near the De Kaap alluvial gold fields. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Witchcraft: a ship being confronted by a sea-devil (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • A devil hacks a field with a scythe. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • A red hand clutching a purple devil. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A red hand clutching a purple devil. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A skeleton and a devil flank a coat of arms. Etching, 1807.
  • The devil examining the head of a boy; three other boys lurk under the devil's wings; frontispiece to a manual on phrenology. Steel engraving by J.D. Nargeot, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Witchcraft: Robert Hunt, with two other men, surmounted by a devil. Woodcut, 1720.
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • A skeleton dressed as a devil with sword. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1898.
  • Saint Benedict curing a man possessed by a devil. Etching after L. Carracci.
  • [Leaflet advertising devil's claw as a herbal cleanser, detoxifier and for rheumatic conditions].
  • The Christ Child triumphing over the devil. Engraving by G. Edelinck after D. Hallé.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • A woman beleaguered by four enemies; representing Faith resisting Death, Schism, the World and the Devil. Engraving by Hieronymus Wierix after Maarten de Vos, 156-.
  • Succisia pratensis Greene Asteraceae. Devil’s Bit Scabious, Blue Buttons. Distribution: Europe, W Asia, Africa. Culpeper (1650), under ‘Herbs’ he writes: ‘Succisa, Morsus diobolo, Devil’s Bit. Inwardly taken it easeth the fits of the mother [probably uterine spasm or pain], and breaks wind, taketh away the swellings in the mouth, and slimy phlegm that sticks to the jaws, neither is there a more present remedy in the world, for those cold swellings of the neck, which the vulgar call the Almonds [lymph nodes] of the neck than this herb bruised and applied to them. Folk lore attribute it as a cure-all which was so successful that the Devil bit off the bottom of the roots when he saw it growing down into Hades. However, the roots show no sign of such damage to support the myth. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Witchcraft: the devil bringing medicine to a man or woman in bed (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • A lawyer sticking knives into a snake: the devil looks on. Etching by T. Landseer, 1831.
  • A man in prison praying to the devil to have him released. Etching by D. Stoop.
  • Death riding side by side with a knight, followed by a devil. Etching after A. Dürer.
  • Witchcraft: the devil talking to a gentleman and a judge (?) in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola: he drives away with a stick a dragon representing the devil. Engraving.
  • Walpurgisnacht: a devil sees witches on broomsticks setting off into the night. Etching by R. Girling.
  • Death riding side by side with a knight followed by a devil. Etching, 1564, after Albrecht Dürer.