Occult Collection

Witches destroying a house by fire - Swabia, 1533. Woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Milan, 1608. (Colorised black and white print)

Faust Illustration, 1925. Artist: Harry Clarke
Faust Illustration, 1925. From The Studio Volume 90. [London Offices of the Studio, London, 1925]

'The Angel of Splendours', 1894. Creator: Jean Delville
'The Angel of Splendours', 1894. Private collection.

Portrait of Giuseppe Balsamo (called Count Alessandro Cagliostro) (image 2 of 2), c.1786. Creator: Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Giuseppe Balsamo (called Count Alessandro Cagliostro) (image 2 of 2), c.1786

Portrait of Giuseppe Balsamo (called Count Alessandro Cagliostro) (image 1 of 2), c.1786. Creator: Jean-Antoine Houdon
Portrait of Giuseppe Balsamo (called Count Alessandro Cagliostro) (image 1 of 2), c.1786

Macbeth visiting the three witches on the blasted heath, 1858. Artist: Sir John Gilbert
Macbeth visiting the three witches on the blasted heath, 1858. Title page to Macbeth from an edition of William Shakespeares works published in London in 1858

St. James and the Magician Hermogenes, 1565. Creator: Pieter van der Heyden
St. James and the Magician Hermogenes, 1565

The Nightmare, with her whole ninefold …, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1928
The Nightmare, with her whole ninefold …, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1783 - 1859), pub. 1928 (colour lithograph)

The Demons Ashtaroth, Abaddon and Mammon, 1801. Abaddon angel of the bottomless pit, Mammon god of this world and personification of wealth and miserliness and Ashtaroth the demon

Amazonian Indians Worshiping the Sun God, ca 1860. Creator: Biard
Amazonian Indians Worshiping the Sun God, ca 1860. Found in the collection of Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo

Witches Preparing for Sabbath, ca. 1610. Creator: Andries Stock
Witches Preparing for Sabbath, ca. 1610

St. James and the Magician Hermogenes from The Story of the Magician Hermogenes, 1565

Est-ce un enchantment... n.d. Creator: Claude Gillot
Est-ce un enchantment....n.d

Errant pendant la nuit... n.d. Creator: Claude Gillot
Errant pendant la nuit....n.d

Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones, ca. 1515-25

Stags Heads - Dibedale, ca. 1856. Creator: Horatio Ross
Stags Heads - Dibedale, ca. 1856

Dee, (1527-1609), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Dee, (1527-1609), 1830. John Dee (1527-1609) English/Welsh mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher and advisor to Queen Elizabeth I

Tarquinius and the Sibyl, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Tarquinius and the Sibyl, 1890. From " Cassells Illustrated Universal History Vol. II - Rome", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

The Witches Appear to Macbeth and Banquo, c1820. Artist: William Bromley
The Witches Appear to Macbeth and Banquo, c1820. Scene from William Shakespeares play Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3

Macbeth, the three witches and Hecate, 1805. Artist: John Boydell
Macbeth, the three witches and Hecate, 1805. Act IV, Scene I of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three witches on the heath, 1805. Artist: John Boydell
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the three witches on the heath, 1805. Act I, Scene III of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Macbeth and Banquo encountering the three witches, 1858. Artist: Sir John Gilbert
Macbeth and Banquo encountering the three witches, 1858. Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches for the first time and hearing their prophetic greeting

Spiritualist meeting in Leipzig, Germany, 1893. Communicating with spirits by table-turning. From L Illustration. (Paris, 1853). (Colorised black and white print)

Planchette or Ouija board, 1885
Planchette or Ouija board, c1880. Method of using the Planchette for spirit writing during a seance. From The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, edited by Edward H Knight

Witch raising a storm, 1562. From Olaus Magnus Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Antwerp. (Colorised black and white print)

Planchette or Ouija board, 1885
Planchette or Ouija board, c1880. Method of using the Planchette for spirit writing during a seance. From The Practical Dictionary of Mechanics, edited by Edward H Knight. (New York and London, c1880)

Occultist, c19th century

Nostradamus, 16th century French physician and astrologer, 1725. Portrait of Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame (1503-1556) who wrote a series of famous but vague prophecies

Synopsis of the diviners arts, 1617-1619. Chiromancy, prophecy, mnemonics, physiognomy, pyramidology, geomancy, astrology, the seven sources of human knowledge. From Utriusque cosmi

Babylonian clay model of a sheeps lung
Clay model of a lung, containing omens, Late Babylonian, 7th Century BC, from Ninevah. Used by baru-priests to teach their students its anatomy and its significance in foretelling the future

Witch raising a storm, 1562. From Olaus Magnus Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus, Antwerp

Chiromancy, 1617-1619. Title page of a chapter on chiromancy from Robert Fludds Utriusque cosmi...historia, showing the lines of the hand. (Oppenheim, 1617-1619)

Hermes the Egyptian, alchemist, 17th century. Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary fount of occult and alchemical knowledge

Edward Kelley, English astrologer and alchemist, c1790. Kelley (1555-1597) with his assistant raising a spirit in a churchyard

Title page of La Tres Sainte Trinosophie, 18th century. A cabbalistic-alchemical manuscript attributed to the Comte de Sainte-Germain, showing symbols summarising Hermetism

The Devil, in the form of a flying goat, carrying a witch to the Sabbath, 1608. From Francesco Maria Guazzo, Compendium Maleficarum, a work on witchcraft. (Milan 1608)

Witches destroying a house by fire - Swabia, 1533. Woodcut from Francesco Maria Guazzo Compendium Maleficarum, Milan, 1608

Witches and sorcerers feasting at the Sabbath, 1608. From Compendium Maleficarum, by Francesco Maria Guazzo. [Milan, 1608]

Witches casting a spell to bring rain, 1489. From De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus by Ulrich Molitor. [Constance, 1489]

Witch summoning up a monster, 1544
Witch summoning up a monster. This was supposed to have happened in front of Marcomir, King of the Franks. From Cosmographia universalis, by Sebastian Munster. [Basle, 1544]

Witch shooting a man in the foot with an enchanted arrow made from a hazel wand, 1489. From De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus by Ulrich Molitor. [Constance, 1489]

Spirit unmasked at a London seance, 1880. Top: forming a circle by joining hands. Centre: a mediums assistant being placed behind a curtain (left), while spirit manifestations occur (right)

Spiritualist meeting in a Paris drawing room, 1853. Communicating with the other side by means of the hat, table-turning, and the pendulum. From L Illustration (Paris 1853)

Spiritualist meeting in Leipzig, Germany, 1893. Communicating with spirits by table-turning. From L Illustration. (Paris, 1853)

Witches turned into animals as they ride through the air, 1489
Witches turned into animals as they ride through the air on a stick. From Ulrich Militor De Laniis et phitonicis mulieribus, Constance, 1489. Woodcut

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