The Witches’ Sabbath based on reports from the Tribunal of Arras, 1460. Naked witches riding brooms and goats, dancing with fauns, holding snakes, playing music, boiling frogs and snakes in a cauldron. From a 16th century engraving. Legende du sabbat. Woodcut by Etienne Huyot and Jules Huyot from Paul Lacroix’s La Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et a l’Epoque de la Renaissance, Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Paris, 1873.

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