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  • Two young women chasing and sweeping bird figures with mens' heads out of a door, encouraged by two old men in religious habits. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98.
  • A hooded alchemist at a furnace; above him hang dead animals: caricature. Watercolour painting.
  • An episode in King Henry VI, part II: Margerie Jourdayne with others conjure up a diabolical spirit in the hope of revealing to Humphrey Duke of Gloucester the results of competing claims to the English crown. Etching by J. Goldar, 1791, after E. Dayes.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
  • Saul consults Samuel after the witch of Endor has conjured him from the dead; demons crowd the background. Engraving by J. Taylor after S. Rosa, 1813.
  • An episode in King Henry VI, part II: Margerie Jourdayne with others conjure up a diabolical spirit in the hope of revealing to Humfrey Duke of Gloucester the results of competing claims to the English crown. Colour stipple print by C.G. Playter and R. Thew after J. Opie, 1796.
  • Human figures with the heads of birds and donkeys riding on grotesque beasts. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Witchcraft: the devil bringing medicine to a man or woman in bed (?). Woodcut, 1720.
  • Witchcraft and magic: a man conducting magic rites, devils and a ghost appearing, and a hunter cowering in terror. Coloured etching.
  • A devil hacks a field with a scythe. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Saul consults Samuel after the witch of Endor has conjured him from the dead; demons crowd the background. Engraving by A. Laurent, 17--, after S. Rosa.
  • Elizabeth Sawyer, of Edmonton, Middlesex, who was executed for witchcraft in 1621. Etching, 1794.
  • Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Engraving by W. Bromley after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).
  • Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder general. Etching.
  • Julian Cox of Taunton and a man sit smoking by the hearth; a toad is by the feet of the man. Woodcut.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • A naked witch flies to the sabbath mounted on a goat, while her companions continue to prepare their drugs. Process print after H. Baldung Grien.
  • A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804.
  • A naked witch carried on the shoulders of a monster sings from a choirbook held with pincers by two grotesque bishops while two apelike swimmers look on. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A winged figure carrying witches and monsters through the air. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • The witch of Endor with a candle. Engraving by J. Kay, 1805, after A. Elsheimer.
  • The case of the Hertfordshire witchcraft consider'd. : Being an examination of a book entitl'd A full and impartial account of the discovery of sorcery and witchcraft practis'd by Jane Wenham of Walkern, upon the bodies of Anne Thorne, Anne Street, &c.
  • A room with hallucinatory beings and weird furnishings. Watercolour by Auguste Laurent, 1844.
  • Witchcraft: the devil talking to a gentleman and a judge (?) in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Two withered wretches trying to hold up a slab of stone. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • 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. Engraving by F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger, 1750/1790.
  • The hand of destiny : the folk-lore and superstitions of everyday life / by C.J.S. Thompson.
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil making a nail with which to make a boy lame. 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.