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𝓢cenes of 𝓦itchcraft by Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615 — 1673) are a series of paintings depicting witches created in 1645 —1649.

The first scene portrays a young witch plunging a knife into a writhing amphibian creature; it is dawn. This enchantress, perhaps inspired by the great witch Circe in her transformative imagery, is exceptionally violent in her craft: she watches, calm, as the half-turned human before her shifts into a monster.

The second painting showcases a group of old hags, holding onto skulls and brooms. These witches prepare to travel to an orgy, and the light colors in which Rosa portrays the witches add on to the grotesque image, shining some comedic light onto the scene.

The third scene has a group of witches gathered around a cauldron with a conjured skeleton soaring in the sky above the. Following a long-established tradition, the artist paints the hags in the midst of creating a spell: based on the imagery, perhaps a love one.

The fourth painting creates an especially dark image, indicating the night: a group of men watches a magician conjure inhuman, terrifying, formless apparitions. As tradition suggested, necromancy usually was practiced by men so Rosa portrays a mage, a companion to the witches of other scenes, caught in his dark art.

Rosa chose the painting's shape to reference the foundational role of the circle in practicing magic.

⚸ Scenes of Witchcraft: Morning ⚸ Scenes of Witchcraft: Day ⚸ Scenes of Witchcraft: Evening ⚸ Scenes of Witchcraft: Night

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John Webster, The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, 1719

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Hope is optimism with a broken heart.

Nick Cave, in Faith, Hope and Carnage

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Dracula (1931)

Geraldine Dvorak, Dorothy Tree, Cornelia Thaw, Dwight Frye, and Bela Lugosi

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GOYA Witches in the Air 1797-98 Oil on canvas, 43,5 x 31,5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid

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Nick Cave crouching inside and outside a tunnel in South London. From a lithographically printed limited edition book.

Nick Cave by Derek Ridgers, 84, 89, 92, 97’

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Edouard Ravel de Malval

“La mort sur un cheval pâle”

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The Devil flying off with the church in Over Square, Cheshire, England, ca. 1900

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Salvator Rosa 1615-1673

“La Strega” ca 1646

“Le Streghe ai Loro Incantesimi” ca 1646

“Teschio Urlante” 1640/1645

“La Strega” 1640/1649

“Autoritratto” ca 1642

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The Mystic Self - Common and Uncommon sense

By Mesha Ryon

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𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥𝔠𝔲𝔩𝔱 𝔱𝔬𝔡𝔞𝔶

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Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844 -1905, Italian) ~ Fisherman and Mermaids in the Blue Grotto on Capri, n/d

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John Dickson Batten - Twelve Women Round the Fire, 1892

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Lightning Struck a Flock of Witches

William Holbrook Beard

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'Lord of the Forest' by Charles Vess