476 – Witch picture

Physical description:: Reproduction of wood engraving depicting two witches - a woman with an upturned cauldron and a man with an animal skull on a staff - raising a storm. A ship is sinking in the background.
Museum classification:: Sea Witchcraft
Information:: From 'Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus' by Olaus Magnus, 1555.
For a similar staff see the one made by Graham King in the Stang Display, no. 933.
Resource:: Picture
Materials:: Paper

211 – Glasses

4 wine glasses with goddess figure stems, two with pale green bowls and two with light red bowls. Probably Art Deco. One of the green glasses has a small crack extending down from the rim of the bowl. There were also originally 2 short round red glasses but they were lost in the 2004 flood.

468 – Print

Reproduction of an old woodcut showing a male witch selling the wind (in a knotted rope) to sailors.

608 – Witch Picture

Reproduction of a 16th century woodcut taken from "news from Scotland" 1591. Shows the North Berwick Witches, plus Dr. John Fian the schoolmaster, a sinking ship and a satanic figure.