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  2. The Magic Circle (Waterhouse paintings) - Wikipedia

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    Outside the circle, the landscape is bare and barren; a group of rooks or ravens and a frog – all symbols of evil associated with witchcraft – are excluded. But within its confines are flowers and the woman herself, objects of beauty. The picture's meaning is unclear, but its mystery and exoticism struck a chord with contemporary observers.

  3. Witch (archetype) - Wikipedia

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    Another significant artist whose art consistently depicted witches was Dürer's apprentice, Hans Baldung Grien, a 15th-century German artist. His chiaroscuro woodcut, Witches, created in 1510, visually encompassed all the characteristics that were regularly assigned to witches during the Renaissance.

  4. The Four Naked Women (Dürer) - Wikipedia

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    The women are positioned in a small interior space which contains a window and can be entered or exited from two sides. The small devil in the left hand recess, who is intended to represent evil, as mammalian anatomy including hind legs, and holds a vaguely described object in his claw that appears to consist of sticks and a piece of string, [10] perhaps comprising a contemporary device for ...

  5. Representation of animals in Western medieval art - Wikipedia

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    The art of the Middle Ages was mainly religious, reflecting the relationship between God and man, created in His image. The animal often appears confronted or dominated by man, but a second current of thought stemming from Saint Paul and Aristotle, which developed from the 12th century onwards, includes animals and humans in the same community of living creatures.

  6. Category:Witches in art - Wikipedia

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  7. The Witches (Hans Baldung) - Wikipedia

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    Art historian Jane Schyler asserts that The Witches illustrates the beliefs of church inquisitors, and that its imagery is directly informed by the writings of the Malleus Maleficarum. [3] Baldung, who had an attorney for a father and a professor for a brother, likely had access to the Malleaus maleficarum through his family members.

  8. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits - Wikipedia

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    Drawing from the many trial records of those accused of witchcraft during this period, she illustrates the ways that magic practitioners first meet their familiars, [11] the types of working relationships they might have, [12] the demands made by familiars (such as the renunciation of Christianity), [13] and the morally ambiguous space that ...

  9. Sybil Leek - Wikipedia

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    Sybil Leek was strong in the defence of her beliefs, and sometimes differed with, and even quarrelled with, other witches. She disapproved of nudity in rituals, which is a requirement in Gardnerian Wicca, and she was strongly against the use of drugs, and she contrasted with most other witches in that she did believe in cursing.