Old woman (witch or fairy) spinning, 1547. Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger

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Old woman (witch or fairy) spinning, 1547. Woodcut attributed to Holbein from an edition of De consolatione philosophiae by the Roman scholar and philosopher Boethius.

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