Seventeenth century

Old lady + animals = English witch

Old lady + animals = English witch
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From
The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters…
Printed
1619
Image from
Early English Books Online (STC 11107)

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 8 July 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters… (1619), the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. The image is from Early English Books Online (STC 11107). Copied into this book the eighth day of July, 2015. Finis.

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The wonderful discouerie of the vvitchcrafts of Margaret and Phillip Flower, daughters….
1619.
Early English Books Online (STC 11107).

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