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  • The hierarchie of the blessed angells. Their names, orders and offices / The fall of Lucifer with his angells. Written by Tho. Heywood.
  • Witchcraft: witches giving babies to the devil. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A witch holding a plant in one hand and a fan in the other. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Witchcraft: witches and devils dancing in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A circle of witches dance around a central figure. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • The Duke of Clarence is assailed by demons and taunted by a blood-soaked angel in a dream; an episode in Shakespeare's 'Richard III'. Engraving by J. Neagle, 1804, after T. Stothard.
  • An evil demon (dMu) who causes dropsy. Watercolour by a Tibetan painter.
  • Jack o'lantern as a demon standing among bullrushes at the water's edge at night and holding a lantern. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1842.
  • Witchcraft: a bewitched woman vomiting. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A man holds a scythe as winged creatures fly above him, three figures approach on a horse, and another figure approaches from the left with a scroll. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • A magician stands in the middle of a circle holding a stick in one hand and a book in the other as he is watched by the devil in the form of a dragon. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.
  • Double picture: a person hanging from the gallows; a witch burning a sleeping couple while a demon figure carries off a child. Woodcut, 1790.
  • 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].
  • A man on horseback enters a church to discover an orgiastic sabbath. Watercolour painting.
  • Malleus maleficarum / [Heinrich Institoris].
  • Saint Ignatius of Loyola as tamer of evil spirits. Coloured engraving by J. Everaerts.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • The infernal legion of demons, in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Wood engraving by J.A. Faxardo after Lecurieux, ca. 1838.
  • Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.
  • Witchcraft: a witch and a devil making a nail with which to make a boy lame. Woodcut, 1720.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity : To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • Devils attack a man's head; symbolising headache. Lithograph by C. Ramelet after H. Daumier, c. 1833.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • The god Apollo holding his bow and an arrow. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Witchcraft: Robert Hunt, with two other men, surmounted by a devil. Woodcut, 1720.
  • Saint Antony Abbot. Engraving after J. Callot.
  • Khandoba alias Mantri avatar on horseback with a woman spearing the demon Malla daitya, another woman Murali approaches towards them while behind the couple, Vaghoba with an arrow and bell stands before the fallen demon Mangi. Transfer lithograph by Kusha Buvra Ramji.