a Friedrich König illustration, 1899
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a Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustration
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"Old Black Witch!" a children's book by Wende and Harry Devlin
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.
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
Curse Of The Mummy ... a Basil Gogos illustration, 1971 see full size
an Otto Eckmann 1896 illustration: it's unclear if this is about magic ...
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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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"The Alchemist" by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1923
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there's too much German text to type into a translator
a Robert Williams painting about parents' perceived dark magic
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Robert Williams ... a foolish girl plays with a ouija board see full size
"Who are you who dare to knock at my door?" an H.J. Ford illustration
a Steve Ditko comic book, 1968
a page from the 1960s Steve Ditko comic book 'Dr. Strange'
an Andy Warhol print of Margaret Hamilton as a witch
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a Charles Addams cartoon about a genie from Wikipedia ... supernatural
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creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian and later Islamic mythology and theology
William Mortensen
Mary Blair see full size
Heinrich Kley
Joe Isom, 1967
Sascha Schneider, 1904
"The Occult World" Wilhelm Friedrich, 1899?
a Disney animation still from the 1940 film 'Fantasia' see full size
an old C.B Falls illustration of Merlin (Welsh: Myrddin) a legendary
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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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figure best known as an enchanter or wizard featured in Arthurian
legend and medieval Welsh poetry (Wikipedia excerpt)
Milt Kahl's lighter version of Merlin for the 1963 Disney animation 'The Sword In The Stone'
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