Frontispiece to Matthew Hopkins' Discovery of Witches (1648) showing two witches calling out the names of their demons while Hopkins watches above.
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…
Matthew Hopkins Witch Finder Generall
Date
1648
From
Discovery of Witches
