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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....

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...

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...

Testing for gremlins

 Blah blah blah testing for gremlins πŸ˜†

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 ...

Complex, dangerous, sexual beings': The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction

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  Complex, dangerous, sexual beings': The centuries-old origins of current fairy fiction Visit BBC website for full article. And I would say more of an adult read so visit and read before sharing with younger Folklorists.    https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20260331-the-centuries-old-origins-of-faerie-smut

May day blessings to you all xxxx

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