Witchcraft - engravings
Topic: Images, Macabre|Cornell has a great library of old engravings and art. Below are some of the witchcraft and demonic engravings.
The religious supernatural recognizes - zed a self torn between transcendent forces that fought for its possession.
The Devil and his minions, the Demons, engaged in a struggle for the soul with the angels and guardian spirits. When the religious supernatural expresses the search for salvation in terms of conflict and terror it anticipates the universe of Fantastic anxiety. A particular interest in this cluster of images is the material drawn from Cornell’s extensive Witchcraft collection.
Most of these engravings are taken from books printed in the 1800’s and early 1900’s about witchcraft and the occult. The image below is a witch riding a wolf, originally woodblock
Book Maurice Garçon. La Vie Execrable de Guillemette Babin, Sorciere. Paris : H. Piazza, 1926. Page 28.
Bernard Zuber, artist.
July 31st, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hi!
These engravings by Zuber are amazing!
I found some more on the ‘net, but with a very poor quality.
Do you have de rest?
Can you post them also?
The book by Maurice Garçon is not available on Amazon, of course…
Thank You!
February 24th, 2010 at 5:04 am
are you kidding those pictures are bloody feral how can a witch a white one at that like something like that you have a few screws loose sister
March 30th, 2010 at 2:47 am
The Zuber engravings for Garcon’s “Le Vie Exerable de Guillemette Babin, Sorciere” are the epitome of gothic. Does anyone know if this book was ever translated & published in English? There was also a French film made in 1948. And I’ve never heard about either of them in the USA. From the engravings seems like this story could rival Haxon for atmosphere - capturing the church’s depiction & persecution of witches.