1764 – Witch picture

Physical description:

Reproduction of a woodcut showing a witch holding her ferret familiar - Joan Prentice and her ferret Bidd.

Museum classification:

Images of Witchcraft

Size:

293 x 208

Information:

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'Time and again one hears of witches having familiar spirits in animal form. The witch here has a long tailed, four-legged animal similar to a fox cub, as her spirit companion.'
Reproduction of part of the title page of a pamphlet on the third Chelmsford witch trial (1589) - 'The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches Arraigned and by Justice Condemned and Executed at Chelmsford'. The three women executed were Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. The only surviving copy of the pamphlet is in Lambeth Palace Library. See 139.

Resource:

Picture

Materials:

Paper

Copyright ownership:

Treetrunk Ltd

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'Time and again one hears of witches having familiar spirits in animal form. The witch here has a long tailed, four-legged animal similar to a fox cub, as her spirit companion.'
Reproduction of part of the title page of a pamphlet on the third Chelmsford witch trial (1589) - 'The Apprehension and Confession of Three Notorious Witches Arraigned and by Justice Condemned and Executed at Chelmsford'. The three women executed were Joan Prentice, Joan Cony and Joan Upney. The only surviving copy of the pamphlet is in Lambeth Palace Library. See 139.