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  • Physicians, representing the Holy League against the Turks, gather around the sick sultan; representing the Peace of Karlowitz. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, ca. 1700.
  • Conversion of Simon the Sorcerer. Aquatint by J. Stewart after Raphael.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • Macbeth meets the three witches; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Wood engraving, 19th century.
  • Two wretches fighting in mid-air being grabbed by monsters. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Two men in the midst of the orgies of a witches' sabbath. Wood engraving.
  • Saul consults the witch of Endor. Engraving by J. Mynde, c. 1737.
  • A hooded alchemist at a furnace; above him hang dead animals: caricature. Watercolour painting.
  • 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.
  • Nineteen scenes depicting popular disillusionment with doctors and medicine. Coloured wood engraving by Henriot, ca. 1900.
  • A naked witch watching a seated monster grabbing a jumping goat by its hind leg. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Two witches tell Macbeth (representing the Earl of Bute) that he will be king and another, holding a noose, says he will be "Knight - the first that ever graced the Scottish annals". Etching, 1762.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Macbeth, the three witches, Hecate, and the eight kings, in a cave. Stipple print by R. Thew after J. Reynolds, 1 December 1802.
  • A wizard casting spells from his magic circle by the light of his cauldron surrounded by creatures. Engraving by J. Wood, 1763, after J. Collins..
  • Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A group of young people sitting under a tree being taught the 'Facts about AIDS' by a man sitting in a chair with thatched mud houses beyond; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the NGO AIDS Consortium with PATH in Kenya. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Witchcraft: a white-faced witch meeting a black-faced witch with a great beast. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Witchcraft: Macbeth seeing the three witches, with other horrifying visions. Etching after J. Reynolds, ca. 1786-1790, after W. Shakespeare.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • A man reading a grimoire, grinning; next to him a hooded man, kneeling on the floor, is holding a torch: they are conjuring up demons. Etching after D. Teniers, the younger, 1750/1790.
  • 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 ship being confronted by a sea-devil (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • An old wizard sitting within a magic circle at his desk visited by a nobleman. Engraving by T. Engleheart after A. Fraser the elder.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • A man barricades himself in with a panoply of protections against the cholera epidemic, the latter represented as a hag; representing an overabundance of useless advice concerning protection against cholera. Coloured etching by J.B. Wunder, c. 1832.
  • 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.
  • Jacob offers bread and soup to an exhausted Esau, who has returned from hunting; to the left, angels move upon Jacob's ladder; to the right, the blind Isaac feels Jacob's disguised hands. Engraving by E. Kirkall after Skeitz.
  • 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.
  • Mallevs maleficarvm, maleficas et earvm hæresim frameā conterens, ex variis avctoribvs compilatvs. Et in quatuor tomos iusté distributus, qvorvm dvo priores vanas dæmonvm versutias, præstigiosas eorum delusiones, superstitiosas strigimagarum cæremonias, horrendos etiam cum illis congressus; exactam denique tam pestiferæ sectæ disquisitionem, & punitionem complectuntur. Tertius praxim exorcistarum ad dæmonum, & strigimagarum maleficia de Christi fidelibus pellenda; quartus verò artem doctrinalem, benedictionalem, & exorcismalem continent ... / [Heinrich Institoris].