Episode 4 - Crazy for Witches HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
It is the season of the WITCH, baby!!! This time we have a Halloween special for you. From Lilith the OG, via Circe, Hekate and Europe’s early modern Witch Craze, we are giving you a whistle-stop tour of all things witchy and woo woo. Along the way we discuss crow armies, personal taxidermists, and whether Albrecht Dürer was a fan of the Curly Girl Method. The list of artworks we discuss in order are: The Burney Relief, Old Babylonian 19th-18thC BC: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_2003-0718-1 Story of Circe on an Ancient Greek pot, c. 440 BC: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/253627 John Collier, Lilith, 1889: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/lilith-65854 Albrecht Dürer The Witch, c. 1500: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/391139 Four Witches, 1497: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_E-2-119 Self Portrait, 1500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Portrait_(D%C3%BCrer,_Munich) Hans Baldung Grien The Witches, 1510: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/416796 Bewitched Groom, 1544/45: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/bewitched-groom Woodcuts A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile,1579: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/witchcraft-pamphlet-a-rehearsal-both-strange-and-true-1579 Title page of Matthew Hopkins’ “A Discovery of Witches”, 1647: http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/large107868.html The History of Witches and Wizards in England, 1720: https://wellcomecollection.org/images?query=abkab8tq Daniel Gardner, The Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw144816/The-Three-Witches-from-Macbeth-Elizabeth-Lamb-Viscountess-Melbourne-Georgiana-Duchess-of-Devonshire-Anne-Seymour-Damer Henry Fuseli Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches, 1793-4: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/macbeth-banquo-and-the-witches-219771 The Weird Sisters, c. 1783: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/macbeth-act-i-scene-3-the-weird-sisters-54899 Francisco Goya Witches’ Flight, c. 1798: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/witches-flight/5e44d19d-7cda-472b-b6d8-8868c599d252 Witches’ Sabbath, 1797-8: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/el-aquelarre/kAFyfuppyHHyBw?hl=en-GB Truth, Time and History, 1812: https://fundaciongoyaenaragon.es/eng/obra/la-verdad-el-tiempo-y-la-historia/165 Witches’ Sabbath, or The Great He-Goat, 1820-3: https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/witches-sabbath-or-the-great-he-goat/09559184-cfeb-48fe-8acc-89b070b64d92 JW Waterhouse, The Magic Circle, 1886: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/waterhouse-the-magic-circle-n01572 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith, 1866-8: https://emuseum.delart.org/objects/6457/lady-lilith?ctx=7daa5724c2dab253a5696066e15664624303a27d&idx=5 You can follow us on Instagram (@isit_arttho), Facebook (@isitarttho) or Twitter (@isitarttho1) to see the artworks we discuss. We also did a lot of research for this episode which we weren’t able to fit in, so if you want to get your witch on, check out these articles and other podcast episodes below: Lilith https://www.learnreligions.com/legend-of-lilith-origins-2076660 https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/lilith/ Medieval witches https://theconversation.com/the-evolution-of-the-medieval-witch-and-why-shes-usually-a-woman-104861 Gone Medieval, Royal Witches: https://podfollow.com/gone-medieval/episode/bacf891c71399cabaaec98a5a4f0552e7a85aef9/view https://www.grunge.com/417990/royalty-who-dabbled-in-witchcraft/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-making-beer The Witch Craze You’re Dead To Me (BBC), The Witch Craze: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07nx05j https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodcuts-and-witches#1-1 https://historycollection.com/12-shocking-beliefs-from-the-malleus-maleficarum-the-witchfinders-guideboo
