Woodcut, circa 1400. A witch, a demon and a warlock fly toward a peasant woman. Hulton Archive /Handout via Getty ImagesOn a midsummer day in 1438, a young man from the north shore of Lake Geneva ...

Whether you imagine a witch as a monstrous Macbeth conjuror, or a more innocuous pointy-hatted character riding a broomstick, it's likely the visuals of art have something to do with it.

One that did particularly well was Grien's The Witches' Sabbath, a colour woodcut print from 1510 that depicts four nude female figures sitting on the ground with a cauldron.

A woodcut from a 1720 history of "witches and wizards" Wellcome Library You’ll see them tomorrow, and you may have been seeing them for weeks: witches. It’s the month of Halloween, after all ...

200 Artifacts of Witchcraft Cast a Spell in Cornell’s “The World Bewitch’d” The exhibit, full of manuscripts, photographs and posters, highlights the history of witchcraft in Europe ...