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Jon Crabb on the witch-craze of Early Modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone — complete with cauldron and cats — so familiar today.

Jon Crabb on the witch-craze of Early Modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone — complete with cauldron and cats — so familiar today.

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"Today, most people imagine witches as ugly and old women. Demonic masks with toothless mouth, a long, hooked nose and at least one large nipple from which sticks out a few hairs…" Illustration for a story They are from ancient times "Witches come from ancient times, when death was not death, and when the living and the dead lived together… For these creatures boundaries between worlds was porous – in the space, border was marked with grave, and the time with sunset." Illustration # 1 / story Remedy against the witches "They say that God is powerful because He is the knower of all names. From Him the name can not be hide. But from the people and witches can…" Illustration # 2 / story Remedy against the witches "The terrible names are welcome against a witch. If witches were already cracked down on someone's house, then the boy should be named Vuk (Wolf), and girl Vukosava or Vukana, because the witches are afraid of the wolf and not attack him."

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A selection of woodcuts from an 1882 book compiling facsimiles of 18th-century chapbooks. To see the pictures in context and peruse the full chapbooks see our post in the Text section where we have the full book. See also our post dedicated to the 'topsy-turvy' woodcuts. Housed at: Internet Archive | From: University of Toronto LibrariesFound via: Erin HUnderlying Work: PD Worldwide | Digital Copy: No Additional RightsDownload: Right click on image or see source for higher res versions

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Between 1450 and 1750 ecclesiastical and secular courts tried and executed tens of thousand of people throughout Europe for the crime of witchcraft.

The first major exhibit on the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection opens Halloween, and explores the persecution of women through its historic objects.

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