ILLUSTRATIONS

ALPHABETS, MAGICAL. Examples of alphabets from The Magus by Francis Barrett

ATHO, the Horned God of Witchcraft, as shown in a painting by the author

BAPHOMET, the god of the Knights Templars, from Eliphas Lévi’s Transcendental Magic

BELLARMINE JUGS. One example

BROCKEN, THE. An old engraving, ‘The Spectre of the Brocken’.

CATS AS WITCHES’ FAMILIARS. “A Male Witch and his Familiar’, a print after the seventeenth-century picture attributed to Jordaens

CIMARUTA. This Italian witch amulet, representing a sprig of rue, surrounded by other amulets from the author’s collection

DEVIL. Two woodcuts illustrating conceptions of the Devil. An old engraving of the Wild Hunt riding the night wind at the full moon

ESBAT. The Witches’ Frolic, from an engraving by the nineteenth-century artist, George Cruikshank

EVIL EYE. Witch amulets against the Evil Eye: mano in fica and mano cornuta

FLAGELLATION. A miniature from a fifteenth-century French manuscript of St Augustine’s Civitas Dei

FOSSILS. Some examples from the author’s collection

GARDNER, GERALD. “Witch on a Broomstick”, a plaque made by Gerald Gardner

INCUBI AND SUCCUBI. A drawing from a book by the nineteenth-century French occultist, Jules Bois

LOVE CHARMS. A young witch performs a love spell in ‘The Charm of Love’ by the Master of Niederheim, an unknown Flemish artist of the fifteenth-century

MANDRAKE. Strangely shaped roots, reproduced from old prints which declared them to be genuine

NUDITY, RITUAL. Albrecht Durer’s engraving of four witches

PENTAGRAM, THE. Man the microcosm, the pentagram of Cornelius Agrippa. The pentagram from a modern witch’s altar

PERSECUTION OF WITCHES. Woodcut showing the ‘swimming’ of witches from the pamphlet, “Witches Apprehended, Examined and Executed’, published in London in 1613

SABBAT, THE. A fifteenth-century French miniature showing witches meeting

SABBAT, THE. The seventeenth-century idea of a witches’ Sabbat from Tableau de L’Inconstance des Mauvais Anges by Pierre De Lancre

TREES AND WITCHCRAFT. The World Tree, Yggdrasill

WITCHCRAFT. Some tools of witchcraft, set out as if upon a witch’s altar

ZODIAC, THE. The Leo the Lion figure from the Glastonbury Zodiac