2010.54.17445

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Witches
Witches
1967
22.625 in HIGH x 17.5 in WIDE
(57.47 cm HIGH x 44.45 cm WIDE)
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
2010.54.17445

Printed in black at the bottom left and right corners: "(c) 1967 New Albion Bookshop P.O. Box 521 Fairfax, California" and "Printed By Double-H Press San Francisco". "$2.-" handwritten in pencil on verso top center.





Poster has black ink printed on white paper with an image of a witch stirring a cauldron, surrounded by images of castles, a black cat, a toad, a baby with a cracked skull, a skeleton, and a hanging corpse. At the top left is a white box with black text - "Witches were long ago / accepted as an established / fact. The concentaneity of / their testimony was consi- / dered, by their inquisitors, as / irrefutable proof of their re- / ality. The consensus being, / that to become a Witch one / must first feed a consecrated / wafer to a toad, which is then / burned, & the ashes are mixed / with the blood of an unbapti- / sed infant, the powdered bo- / ne of a hanged man & certain / herbs, the nature of which we / do not feel consistent with / the public welfare to divulge. / With this noxious brew the / Witch anoints the palms of / her hands & a stick, which / when placed between her legs / immediately trna- / sports her to / the convocation / of Witches."
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