Usually female practitioner of witchcraft

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Woodcuts from a history of witches, 1739.

Three witches with a cat, a dog and a bird. Engraving, ca. 1800, after a woodcut, 1619.

Witchcraft: a witch and a devil in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.

The Portable Food Co's consolidated soups and dessicated vegetables : "no trouble" : Burn, fire! Cauldron bubble! Splendid soup, NO TROUBLE.

Witchcraft: witches giving babies to the devil. Woodcut, 1720.

A witch holding a plant in one hand and a fan in the other. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.

A witch. Oil painting.

Witchcraft: witches and devils dancing in a circle. Woodcut, 1720.

Two Scotsmen flying on a witch's broomstick from Edinburgh to London; representing Scots usurping the positions of southerners under the government of Lord Bute. Etching by P. Sandby, 1762.

A magician stands in the middle of a circle holding a stick in one hand and a book in the other as he is watched by the devil in the form of a dragon. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.

A circle of witches dance around a central figure. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720.

A witch in a yellow dress and hat with a black cat

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

A naked woman with two witches to her left and a large hand to the right, on a pink, green, purple and black ground

The tryal of witchcraft: or, Witchcraft arraign'd and condemn'd : In some answers to a few questions anent witches and witchcraft.  Wherein is shewed, how to know if one be a witch, as also when one is bewitched: with some observations upon the witches mark, their compact with the Devil, the white witches &c.

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Witches

Images from the collections

Images referencing Witches

Works from the collections

A witch in a yellow dress and hat with a black cat

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

A witch. Oil painting.

A naked woman with two witches to her left and a large hand to the right, on a pink, green, purple and black ground

Witches

Images from the collections

Images referencing Witches

Works from the collections

A witch in a yellow dress and hat with a black cat

Witches: five silhouetted figures. Aquatint by M. Dubourg after B.A. Townshend, 1815.

A witch. Oil painting.

A naked woman with two witches to her left and a large hand to the right, on a pink, green, purple and black ground

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