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Male Witchcraft, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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Petition for Thomas Harvey. (Catalogue ref: SP 18/183 f. 107) Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week article is a real document petitioning for Thomas Harvey who was accused of Witchcraft. It was not just women who were accused of witchcraft. In this source, Henry Alcocke petitioned on the behalf of Thomas Harvey, who was accused of being a witch and then found innocent but was still in prison. 20 October, 1650. Thomas Harvey was a 17th-century mercer (fabric dealer) from Oakham, Rutland, England, who was arrested and tried for "suspicion of witchcraft and wicked practices with the devil". Although acquitted by a jury, he was held in prison due to the presiding judge's command. The majority of people accused of witchcraft in the early modern period were women. However, men could be accused too. In this petition to the Privy Council (a group of advisors at the heart of government), Henry Alcocke pleads for the release of Thomas Harvey, a mercer (dealer in fabrics) ...
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More strange and fascinating creatures! A Witchy Wednesday article.

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  A man rides a gigantic white serpent in a river, watched by a woman in an orange shawl. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1850(?). Date: 1850 Licence:  Public Domain Mark Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday! This week I thought it would be nice to share with you some more fabulous images I have sourced from the Welcome Collection. The Welcome Collection is a fantastic place to do historical research both in person and online.  https://wellcomecollection.org/ All of these images are of different depictions of strange and fascinating creatures across many countries, time periods. Most are in the public domain due to their age. I have put the licence details on each one.  Kali trampling Shiva. Chromolithograph by R. Varma. Raja Ravi Varma Licence: Public Domain Mark Vishnu lying on a serpent, with Lakshmi massaging his feet and Brahma in heaven. Chromolithograph. Licence: Public Domain Mark A serpent. Woodcut after C. Gessner. Conrad GessnerDate: 1613 Lic...
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Strange Creatures, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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  Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity : To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair. George SinclairDate: 1814 Licence: Public Domain Mark Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday! This week I thought it would be nice to share with you some more fabulous images I have sourced from the Welcome Collection. The Welcome Collection is a fantastic place to do historical research both in person and online.  https://wellcomecollection.org/ All of these images are of different depictions of strange and fascinating creatures across many countries, time periods. Most are in the public domain due to their age. I have put the licence details on each one....
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More Witches, a Witchy Wednesday article

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Three old hags surround a basket of new-born babies with bats in the distance. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/98. Francisco GoyaDate: [1796/98] Licence: Public Domain Mark Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday! This week I thought it would be nice to share with you some more fabulous images I have sourced from the Welcome Collection. The Welcome Collection is a fantastic place to do historical research both in person and online.  https://wellcomecollection.org/ All of these images are of different depictions of Witches and most are in the public domain due to their age. I have put the licence details on each one.  A monk and a statue of Saint Patrick trying to prevent the devil from snatching the corpse of a witch from its grave. Watercolour by E. Bell, 1804. Bell, Edward, 1768-1847.Date: 1804 Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) A room with hallucinatory beings and weird furnishings. Watercolour by Auguste Laurent, 1844. Auguste Laurent Date: 1844 Licence: Attribution 4...
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Wizards & Sorcerers! A Witchy Wednesday article.

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  A hooded alchemist at a furnace; above him hang dead animals: caricature. Watercolour painting. Licence:  Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday! This week I thought it would be nice to share with you some more fabulous images I have sourced from the Welcome Collection. The Welcome Collection is a fantastic place to do historical research both in person and online.  https://wellcomecollection.org/ All of these images are of different depictions of Wizards and most are in the public domain due to their age. I have put the licence details on each one.  A wizard and his accomplice performing incantations in a forest during a full moon. Etching by S. Palmer and A.H. Palmer. Samuel PalmerDate: 1883 Licence: Public Domain Mark A wizard conjuring a man from his grave. Etching. Licence:  Public Domain Mark A magician stands in the middle of a circle holding a stick in one hand and a bo...
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Testing for gremlins

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 Blah blah blah testing for gremlins 😆
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Witches, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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Drs. Hermanus Schaepman and Abraham Kuyper, shown as witches, stoke the fire of a cauldron from which emanate devils; symbolising their struggle to institute suffrage, against prevailing resistance in the Dutch second chamber. Reproduction of a lithograph after Van Geldorp, 1901. van Geldorp, active 1901.Date: 28 June 1901 Licence: Public Domain Mark Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday! This week I thought it would be nice to share with you some fabulous images I have sourced from the Welcome Collection. The Welcome Collection is a fantastic place to do historical research both in person and online.  https://wellcomecollection.org/ All of these images are of different depictions of Witches and all are in the public domain due to their age.  A lady seeking knowledge of her lover from a wizard. Process print after Sir E. Burne-Jones. Edward Burne-Jones Licence: Public Domain Mark A witch holding a plant in one hand and a fan in the other. Woodcut, ca. 1700-1720. Date: 1700-1720 ...
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