E3: WITCHES

Raven fulfills her dream of talking about witches for a full hour while B makes some deep connections to current events.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode mentions racism, sexism, antisemitism, sex based violence, and mass murder.

Witches Timeline

Sources

Ruiz, Teofilo. The Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition. Read by Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz. Chantilly: The Great Courses, 2002. Audio lecture, 12 hours 25 minutes.

Cohen, Aline. "Why Artists Have Been Enchanted by Witchcraft for Centuries." Last modified October 25, 2019, https://www.artsy.net/article/alina-cohen-artists-enchanted-witchcraft-centuries.

Hewitt, D.G. "18 Reasons One is Executed for Witchcraft during the ‘Burning Times'." Last modified January 6, 2019, https://historycollection.com/18-reasons-one-is-executed-for-witchcraft-during-the-burning-times/18/.

"Two Waldensian Witches, from Le champion des dames." Accessed May 12, 2022. https://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=31909.

Sullivan, Margaret. "The Witches of Durer and Hans Baldung Grien." Renaissance Quarterly 53, No. 2 (2000): 333-401, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2901872.

Images

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Fig. 1, Poignare, Barthélemy, Two Waldensian Witches, from Le champion des dames, paint on velum, 1451, Bibliothèque nationale de France, France, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Champion_des_dames_Vaudoises.JPG

Fig. 2, Durer, Albrecht, The Witch, print, c. 1500, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Witch_MET_DP815536.jpg.

Fig. 3, De Goya, Francisco, Witches Sabbath, oil on canvas, 1797-1798, Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francisco_de_Goya_y_Lucientes_-_Witches_Sabbath_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.

Fig. 4, De Goya, Francisco, Witches Flight, oil on canvas, 1797, Museo del Prado, Madrid, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Witches_Flight_Goya.jpg.

Fig. 5, Photograph: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, print, 1950, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/photograph-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs/DAGvx-xvwaQHgQ.

Fig. 6, Warhol, Andy, The Witch, screenprint on Lenox Museum Board, 1981, Revolver Gallery, Hollywood, https://revolverwarholgallery.com/portfolio/the-witch-261-2/.