Maleficarum: brujas y demonios

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Title

Maleficarum: brujas y demonios

Subject

Witchcraft.
Demonology.

Exorcism.

Description

Selection of illustrations of witches and demons in bibliographic resources from the Josefina del Toro Fulladosa Collection.

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Selección de ilustraciones de brujas y demonios en recursos bibliográficos de la Colección Josefina del Toro Fulladosa.

Publisher

Colección Josefina del Toro Fulladosa, Sistema de Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.

Rights

The images shown in this collection are licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, CC BY-NC-SA.

Format

Images

Language

English and Spanish

Type

jpg

Coverage

19th century - 20th century

Collection Items

The Necromancers
At the cemetery John Dee and Edward Kelly are in the center of a circle making a ritual to raise the dead. In front of them a figure with skull face that resemble a woman.

Muerte y castigo
Demons devour and torture humans alive.

[Characterization of a demon, according to an ancient romance]
Colorful demon whose body is composed of different parts of other animals such as wings, claws and horns.

La saludadora
A woman greets a sickly person in a bed, behind her a red devil with a lion awaits.

The Spectre Skeleton
The scene takes place in a gloom bedroom were an elderly man point out a figure behind his companion. In the corner a startled man look behind him to see a skeleton spectre coming from the darkness.

The Goddess Freya
In the middle of the scene a warrior fights with the Goddess Freya, who wears a dress and crown and shows a horrific face. At the sides a surprise young man and priestess.

Elfin arrow manufactory
Elves and faires create arrows to give to the witches so they can use them to get confessions.

“Black John” chastising the witches
A demon punishing the witches with a whip.

Witches frolic
A group of witches sailing and flying, two of which have black cats on their backs, over a rough sea following a wave that would represent the Devil. A sailing ship is found in the background.

[A witch riding a demon]
A group of people talking while a naked woman, presumably a witch, rides a devilish creature.
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