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a Friedrich König illustration,  1899

     

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a Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustration

      

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a Heinrich Kley drawing,  1919       see full size

     

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a Gene Colan comic book story panel

     

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a Gray Morrow story panel

     

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a Disney animation still from the 1963 film 'The Sword In The Stone'

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"Old Black Witch!"   a children's book by Wende and Harry Devlin

from Wikipedia: Many women in South America and throughout Europe were killed by witch hunts. The exact number is hotly debated because of a lack of record keeping and different opinions on the time frames and regions that ought to be included. Since the entire persecuting legal system, "judges, ministers, priests, constables, jailers, judges, doctors, prickers, torturers, jurors, executioners" were nearly all male and the victims were overwhelmingly female, the witch hunts are considered by many to be a "gynocide". In the documentary The Burning Times, Thea

Jensen calls this period in history a "Women's Holocaust"

         

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a Louis Moe image    from Wikipedia: Heather Marsh has tied the persecution of witches to the fight of church and industry to control "the power of life and death" at a time when industry needed more workers. She also argues the persecution of witches was a fight for centralized power over the peasant rebellions and the ownership of knowledge by medicine and science which forbade the earlier teaching or practices by women and indigenous cultures. She writes that the persecution of witches has colored misogyny since the 1400s ... Silvia Federici tied the witch hunts to a history of the female body in the transition to capitalism.

     

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a Mila Von Luttich illustration     from Wikipedia:  The first known reference to witches flying on broomsticks dates to 1453, confessed by the male witch Guillaume Edelin

     

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"The Alchemist"   by Edmund J. Sullivan,  1923      

     

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Curse Of The Mummy ... a Basil Gogos illustration,  1971       see full size

     

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an Otto Eckmann 1896 illustration:  it's unclear if this is about magic ...

there's too much German text to type into a translator

     

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a Robert Williams painting about parents' perceived dark magic
effect of comic books on young minds       see full size

     

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Robert Williams ... a foolish girl plays with a ouija board     see full size

     

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"Who are you who dare to knock at my door?"     an H.J. Ford illustration

     

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a Steve Ditko comic book,  1968

     

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a page from the 1960s Steve Ditko comic book 'Dr. Strange'

     

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an Andy Warhol print of Margaret Hamilton as a witch
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a Charles Addams cartoon about a genie     from Wikipedia ... supernatural

creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology

     

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"... an old gypsy woman who claimed to have the power of black magic!

But Myron never believed her of course"     an Alex Toth story panel

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      a Jim Steranko story panel,  1968 ... the magic of the mind unlocked by a hallucinogen

     

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William Mortensen

     

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Mary Blair       see full size

     

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Heinrich Kley

     

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Joe Isom,  1967

     

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Sascha Schneider,  1904

     

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"The Occult World"      Wilhelm Friedrich,  1899?

     

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a Disney animation still from the 1940 film 'Fantasia'       see full size

     

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an old C.B Falls illustration of Merlin     (Welsh: Myrddin) a legendary

figure best known as an enchanter or wizard featured in Arthurian

legend and  medieval Welsh poetry (Wikipedia excerpt)

     

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Milt Kahl's lighter version of Merlin for the 1963 Disney animation 'The Sword In The Stone'
   

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poster:  "Moscow Theatre Festival  September 1-10 1935"

          

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an 1893 cartoon      see full size 

          

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an animation background      see full size

          

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a Rene Georges Hermann-Paul woodcut

          

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Fritz Hass,  1908      see full size

          

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an 1800s opinion of sinful theater actors:  "The greater proportion,  particularly the comic department,  are positively miserable.  How could you expect a man who is,  night after night,  impersonating a miser,  a libertine,  a knave, or a murderer,  to remain content,  or pure,  or honest?"

          

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open-air theater at the 1964 New York World's Fair

          

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a Maurice Vellekoop illustration

          

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"MACBETH"  a John Gilbert illustration,  1858

          

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an Alice & Martin Provensen illustration,  1968

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an Al Herschfeld caricature of Bette Davis in stage costume,  1952

          

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a 1946 showgirl

          

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backstage after the performance by Thomas Theodor Heine 1901 

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a back-stage view of stormy seas in 1843

          

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a Ruodi Barth 1940s stage design

          

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"Spalding & Rogers' Floating Palace",  an 1852 moveable theater

with over a hundred gas lights, and steam heating      see full size

          

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a David Klein 1958 poster for TWA airline showing the Hollywood amphitheater
                             

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a Ronald Searle sketch

          

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"The stage hero is a very powerful man"      see full size
 a J. Bernard Partridge illustration,  1890

          

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While a 1772 man wearing a mask of live bees trick-rides a horse,

he makes the bees fly and return by firing his pistol 

          

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an example of dark 1970s alternative humor by Frank Springer for National Lampoon Magazine 
"Bravest Dog in the World" 

          

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a Robert Williams 1992 painting of Oscar Wilde's historic appearance

in 1882 Leadville Colorado:  things went badly but Wilde was

such a fun sport,  the town soon loved him      see full size

          

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from an 1848 French news publication,  an accident at the theater      see full size

          

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a Don Freeman illustration

          

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a Kuniyoshi print      see full size

          

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the political theater by Frans Masereel

          

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a Diane Arbus photograph of a 1971 street theater performance

          

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Marvin Friedman's illustration of an exotic dance      see full size

          

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a Gus Bofa illustration of low theater in a tavern

          

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a Wilhelm M. Busch illustration