Occult Literature
Matthew Hopkins and the Witches’ Familiars
A standing witch-finder appears between two seated women while named animal familiars occupy the foreground. Vinegar Tom, Sack and Sugar and other creatures link speech scrolls to imagined animal forms. This later reproduction adapts the frontispiece associated with Matthew Hopkins’s Discovery of Witches of 1647, a notorious image from the history of English witch-hunting.
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Illustrator not identified. "Matthew Hopkins and the Witches’ Familiars" [editorial title]. In The Old Book of Magic, Dr. L. W. de Laurence. Undated copy; copyright 1918, undated edition, De Laurence, Scott & Co.. Source scan leaf 286. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0159-0281
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Illustrator not identified. Matthew Hopkins and the Witches’ Familiars. The Old Book of Magic. Scan leaf 286. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0159-0281