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Woodcuts and Witches

Thursday 4 May 2017 at 15:30

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.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/05/04/woodcuts-and-witches/