witchcraft: Media
Videos
Watch the Weird Sisters conspire in the opening scene of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
The Weird Sisters (Three Witches) conspire in Act I, scene 1, of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Images
Francisco Goya: El conjuro or Las brujas (“The Conjuring” or “The Witches”)
El conjuro or Las brujas (“The Conjuring” or “The Witches”), oil...
SCALA/Art Resource, New York
Salem witch trial
Witch trial in Salem, Massachusetts, hand-colored engraving.
© North Wind Picture Archives
Francisco Goya: Linda maestra!
Linda maestra! (“Pretty Teacher!”), an etching by Francisco Goya that depicts...
Yale University Art Gallery
The Blair Witch Project
Heather Donahue in The Blair Witch Project (1999).
Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Witchcraft
Witches being burned at the stake, color drawing, 16th century.
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich
Compendium maleficarum: Devil and witches trampling a cross
The Devil and witches trampling a cross, from Compendium maleficarum, 1608.
From Compendium maleficarum, by Francesco Maria Guazzo, 1608
Malleus maleficarum
Title page from a 1669 edition of the Malleus maleficarum, a handbook on...
BEIC Digital Library (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The Wizard of Oz
The Wicked Witch of the West and one of her flying monkeys in a publicity shot from...
© 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
(From left): Rupert Grint, Evanna Lynch, Matthew Lewis, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe,...
Warner Brothers
Wiccan high priestess celebrating a lunar ritual
High priestess Virginia Powell (left) leading a Wiccan lunar ritual in the temple...
Scott Olson/Getty Images
Satanism
Anton LaVey and Diane Hegarty conducting a ceremony for the Church of Satan.
Bettmann/Getty Images
A depiction of Wicca in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Amber Benson (left) and Alyson Hannigan as witches Tara Maclay and Willow Rosenberg,...
Copyright © 1997 Warner Brothers
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