The Twitching Hour

Richard Baxter - Pamphlet on the Existence of Witches and Ghosts, 1681. Baxter believed in witchcraft as a phenomenon susceptible to rational inquiry and that there was evidence for the objective existence of invisible powers and satanic influences mediated by witches. His text was to be later used as a work of reference in the Salem witch trials.

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How to Become a Sensuous Witch: Spells, Rituals, and Recipes for a Livelier Love Life (1971).

A 12th century depiction of a cloaked but otherwise nude woman riding a large cat appears on a wall in the Schleswig Cathedral in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. Beside her is similarly a cloaked yet otherwise nude woman riding a distaff. Due to iconographic similarities to the literary record, these figures have been theorized as depictions of Freyja and Frigg respectively.

(via justiceleaguers)

As I discussed in an earlier post, pre-Comics Code comic books are full of fascinating women superheroes who’ve been more or less forgotten in the decades since WWII. Born in the era of Rosie the Riveter, when there was a national campaign to get women into workplaces, these costumed heroines...

Glenn Close as Cruella De Vil, 101 Dalmatians (1996).

The Mother of Sorrows in Almeria, Spain.