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Indian fortune-teller with client. Gouache drawing.

A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.

Three mother-goddesses or fates (above); three mandrake charms (below). Engraving.

Death and three fates on an ox-drawn carriage; historical figures die on the ground beneath; representing the triumph of death. Engraving by S. Pomarede, 1748, after G. Buti after  Bonifacio de' Pitati.

The castle of knowledge, flanked by the spheres of destiny and fortune. Woodcut, 1556.

Freud et le destin / Maurizio Balsamo.

Geschichte und Gerechtigkeit / [Esther Fischer-Homberger].

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Fate and fatalism

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A Turkish oracle; the torture wheel of Pope Pius VI. Engraving.

Three mother-goddesses or fates (above); three mandrake charms (below). Engraving.

Freud et le destin / Maurizio Balsamo.

Death and three fates on an ox-drawn carriage; historical figures die on the ground beneath; representing the triumph of death. Engraving by S. Pomarede, 1748, after G. Buti after Bonifacio de' Pitati.

Geschichte und Gerechtigkeit / [Esther Fischer-Homberger].