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  • Effigy, Nigeria, Anua Uyo district.
  • Baluba effigy, Congo.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • A witch at her table being helped by her attendant: they are surrounded by various bottles, mortars and jars. Etching by W. Unger.
  • Male figures with emphasised sexual organs, carved wood. Probably Congo, Africa.
  • Mask, carved wood, markings on forehead and string beard. African [?]
  • Two Mallieolo figures.
  • Effigy of a Shaman from Haida Tribe, late 19th century.
  • Electricity: a large electro-static generator machine in use in the Colosseum, London, with many condenser jars and four operators. Wood engraving, 1839.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • A lady seeking knowledge of her lover from a wizard. Process print after Sir E. Burne-Jones.
  • Four eagle-stone geodes. Woodcut, 1599.
  • Doctor from one of the Australian tribes
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil making a nail with which to make a boy lame. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Chaco Doctor from the Chaquenas tribes
  • The 'tying' cure, Gour tribe, Eastern Bahs-et-Shagal, Sudan
  • Saul consults the witch of Endor. Engraving by J. Mynde, c. 1737.
  • A witch casting spells over a steaming cauldron. Engraving by H.S. Thomassin after Demaretz.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.
  • A traveller being entranced by a witch disguised as a beautiful woman in the Alps. Engraving by T. Stocks after F. Meadows.
  • Witchcraft: Robert Hunt, with two other men, surmounted by a devil. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Wind charm, figure made of lead painted in red
  • Medicina diastatica or sympatheticall mumie: containing, many mysterious and hidden secrets in philosophy and physick. By the construction, extraction, transplantation and application of microcosmical & spiritual mumie. Teaching the magneticall cure of diseases at distance, etc / Abstracted from the works of Dr. Theophr. Paracelsus: by the labour and industry of Andrea Tentzelius ... Translated out of the Latine by Ferdinando Parkhurst.
  • Amulets showing variety of types, Pacific and Africa.
  • An evil magician raises demons from a distillery tub as onlookers fall back amazed. Coloured aquatint, c. 1808, after S. De Wilde.
  • The Taboo goblins of Urama Employed by the old men of the clan to keep the village in control, and to guard certain fruits and vegetables for use at festival time.