Pulpit with preacher and listeners, Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism / A Medley (title on object), Text in English in the bottom margin. At the top center of the pulpit, a preacher speaks passionately with witch and devil in his hands, his wig falling off to reveal a Jesuit tonsure. His lyric sheet reads 'I Speak as a Fool'. The decorations on the pulpit refer to superstitions in ghosts. Below, a man takes an icon of the Cock Lane spirit from the bosom of a woman while they are both in religious ecstasy. Below, Mary Toft gives birth to four rabbits

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