RMMC6P9Y–Sophisticated wiccan ritual, designed to promote the notion that death is a birth into another world.
RMMC87H9–SKULLS - WOMAN SEATED IN SKULL SOCKET The image is designed to illustrate the notion of reincarnation.
RMMC887R–Girl on wiccan altar during ritual. The skull placing is intended to represent the notion that death is a rebirth.
RMMC6NJN–The creation of a Golem by a witch. Fantasy related to the notion that we all create our personal Golems, or darker selves, as we progress through life.
RMMC885C–GRIMOIRE Sciomancy Awful invocation of demons - 19th century romantic notion of demonic invocation. From 'The Astrologer of the 19th Century'. The plate is entitled 'Necromancer'
RMMBD39M–Superstitions - Ladders. The notion that it is unlucky to step under a ladder is due to the idea that demons can become trapped in the prison-like apparatus. The angry demon may then grab the unwary.
RMMC6GRC–Druids' Temple. Built to the order of William Danby, circa 1820, it combines elements from Stonehenge and a romantic notion of ancient stone circles
RMMC86YY–BRITISH MYTHOLOGY - Acomb (Near York) 'The Rational Almanac' by Moses Cotsworth of York, who contributed much to the notion that the pyramids and the stone circles were intended as calendars and repositories of ancient wisdom
RMMC88A7–WITCHCRAFT 18th century engraving showing demonic celebrations during a witch Sabbat on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains - a notion made famous by Goethe's 'Faust'
RMMC859G–Seven ages of man - Hand coloured 19th century print, illustrating the seven stages, or ages, of Man, as described by Shakespeare in As You Like It (Act 2, scene vii). Based on the notion that each of the stages of development is ruled by a planet - with the Moon ruling childhood, Saturn old age.
RMMC6ECP–HEALTH - MUMIA AND THE UNICORN A work by the famous French surgeon, Ambroise Pare, who tended Henri II at the cruel death in the duel, which Nostradamus had predicted. In this book, Pare dealt with the medical value of Mumia (made from the powdered remains of Egyptian mummies) and the horn of the Unicorn. The motto around the philosopher (or alchemist) in the device, reads (in translation), 'I carry all my things with me'. This relates partly to self-sufficiency, but also to the notion that any burden of knowledge should be hidden within the self, rather than be in evidence (as with the t
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