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Although accounts of witchcraft and demonic possession can be found from virtually all cultures around the world, in the wake of the Reformation and the European wars of religion in the fifteenth century, accusations of witchcraft and instances of…

This image illustrates the Biblical story of "The Healing of the Gadarene Demoniacs." In story two demoniacs approach Christ and during the exorcism Christ sends the demons into a herd of pigs and the pigs then rushed down a steep bank into the sea…

This illustration of a biblical possession in noted for its attention to architecture and was displayed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the John G. Johnson Collection, 1917. The image is by that artists Francesco d'Antonio, 1425-1426. The…

This image by Jermono Nadal is from Evangelicae Historiae Imagines. The Biblical Possession shows Christ healing a blind and mute demoniac from 1593. The sixteenth century illustration shows the male demoniac kneeling before Christ. The illustration…

Saint Hugh of Lincoln exorcises a male demoniac possessed by the Devil, created by Gherardo Sternina, (1404-1407). This fifteenth century image is held in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli. The male demoniac has been restrained by rope at the wrists and ankles…

This image comes from Hilaire Kallendorf's Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. This image was created by an anonymous artist from the Matches, in the fifteenth century. Kallendorf printed this image…