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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…

This image shows the administration of the Blessed Sacrament to Nicole Obry in 1566. One of the many exorcism preformed on the young female demoniac. French exorcists used the Eucharist in exorcisms as part of a Huguenots to prove that Christ was…

This engraving by Jacques Callot depicts an unidentified woman during her exorcism. The female demoniac's back is arched, her limbs are extended, and her head is twisted to her left. A picture of the Virgin Mary, whose help was often solicited in…

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 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…

William Hogarth's, Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism is an eighteenth century print. Hogarth has satirized religious enthusiasm and the beliefs it inspired. Hogarth makes connections to witchcraft by the witch on a broomstick held by a…

This image from The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian P. Levack is centered on the execution of Urbain Grandier at Loudun in 1634. Grandier was one of three French priests convicted of causing the possession of nuns…

This thirteenth-century manuscript illustration depicts a biblical possession of the demon as a man with wings who is addressing Christ. The image was intended to represent the exorcism at Capernaum, (similar to Gerard Hoets illustration) in which…

This image, also known as symptoms of hysteria I is created by Jean-Franois Badoureau depicts Louise Latreau, a patient in Jean-Martin Chacot's clinic, experiencing a hysterical attack in the late nineteenth century. The drawing shows the…