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  • Demons and witches arrive at the sabbath. Engraving by J. Aliamet after D. Teniers the younger, 1755.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
  • Witches meeting and performing spell. Etching by J.A.A. Pastelot.
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
  • An episode in Macbeth by William Shakespeare: the three witches. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1785, after H. Fuseli, 1783.
  • An episode in Macbeth by William Shakespeare: the three witches. Mezzotint by J.R. Smith, 1785, after H. Fuseli, 1783.
  • Witchcraft: Macbeth seeing the three witches, with other horrifying visions. Etching after J. Reynolds, ca. 1786-1790, after W. Shakespeare.
  • Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Painting after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).
  • Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.
  • Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.
  • On a windswept heath, three witches prophesy to an aghast Daniel O' Connell. Coloured lithograph by h.b. (unknown artist), 1843.
  • Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Engraving by J. Heath, 1804, after H. Fuseli.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • Macbeth, the three witches, Hecate, and the eight kings, in a cave. Stipple print by R. Thew after J. Reynolds, 1 December 1802.
  • Macbeth and Banquo meet the three witches on a heath; scene from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'. Engraving by W. Bromley after J.H. Füssli (Fuseli).
  • Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. The first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence ... With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject. And an authentick, but wonderful story of certain Swedish witches / done into English by Anth. Horneck.
  • Saducismus triumphatus: or, full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions. In two parts. The first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence ... With a letter of Dr. Henry More on the same subject. And an authentick, but wonderful story of certain Swedish witches / done into English by Anth. Horneck.
  • Big black cats howl as naked witches ascend into the night over the city. Colour process print after of a lithograph by T.A. Steinlen.
  • Macbeth consults the three witches; an apparition appears of a bloody child, who calls Macbeth's name three times. Engraving by W. Byrne, 1773, after E. Edwards.
  • 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.
  • A collection of modern relations of matter of fact, concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people. To which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God, in preserving us from the malace and power of evil angels. Part I. / Written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale, upon occasion of a tryal of several witches before him. [Anon].
  • Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder general, with two supposed witches calling out the names of their demons, some of which are represented by animals. Etching, 1792, after an earlier woodcut.
  • 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.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.
  • Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901.
  • The history of witches and wizards: giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Swedeland, France, and New England; with their confession and condemnation / Collected from Bishop Hall, Bishop Morton, Sir Matthew Hale, etc. By W.P.