First woodcut in the pamphlet Newes from Scotland, as reproduced in an 1816 facsimile.
Featured on PDR in the essay Woodcuts and Witches
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
Facsimile from 1816 of woodcut in Newes from Scotland (1591)
Date
1816
From
Newes from Scotland
