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Incantations

Images

  • A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer.
  • An incantatory ceremony in a village watched by men with spears. Watercolour by E. Alec-Tweedie, ca. 1920.
  • A Romany fortune-teller is reading the palm of a young woman suffering unrequited love; two other Romany women are leaning over a fence and children are sitting around a fire. Etching by P.W. Tomkins after H.W. Bunbury, 1791.
  • A conjurer casting spells with his wand and fire surrounded by a kneeling man and demons within the magic circle. Engraving by J. Brown after W.M. Craig, 1813.
  • Witches putting a creature in a boiling cauldron. Lithograph after Biard.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Charms and charming in Europe / edited by Jonathan Roper.

    | Date: 2004
    • Books

    Deliver me from evil : Mesopotamian incantations, 2500-1500 BC / Graham Cunningham.

    Cunningham, Graham. | Date: 1997
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    A conjurer casting spells with his wand and fire surrounded by a kneeling man and demons within the magic circle. Engraving by J. Brown after W.M. Craig, 1813.

    Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829. | Date: 1st May 1813 | Reference: 37887i
    • Books

    Dictionary of ancient magic words and spells : from Abraxas to Zoar / Claude Lecouteux ; translated by Jon E. Graham.

    Lecouteux, Claude | Date: 2015
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    • Online

    An old wizard sitting within a magic circle at his desk visited by a nobleman. Engraving by T. Engleheart after A. Fraser the elder.

    Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865. | Reference: 37903i
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