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Georgian satires - coloured etchings of grotesque characters - are iconic artworks. Many were political; yet witchcraft and magic also featured.

'The Dog & the Devil' (1807) depicts a magician's assistant, who dressed up as a devil to fool a client, but was attacked by his dog.

'Humbugging, or Raising the Devil' by Thomas Rowlandson (1800), from @metmuseum.

Cunning-folk were the sort of wizards who knew how to put on a good show. Arcane objects filled their consulting rooms: skulls, strange animals, herbs, & mysterious manuscripts, as shown here.

Emma, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe (1729-1807) was a famously plain Georgian Lady. But she was proud of the fact that she had 'no common face', as she told the painter Joshua Reynolds. Emma featured in many caricatures, including one as a toad-commanding witch.

From the @NPGLondon

A priest a witch?

Following my earlier tweet about the strangely witchy West Country, here's a weird case from my notes.
In 1898 a woman from Chew Magna, Somerset, caused a scene in church by saying she'd shoot the parson, because he'd 'overlooked' her family.
#FolkloreThursday

Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.
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Could you love, or lust after, a fairy? Goodwin Wharton, an English nobleman and politician, did. During the late 1600s, assisted by his cunning-woman lover, he repeatedly tried to arrange nocturnal meetings with the Fairy Queen.

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(Picture of his brother).

Hedgehog folklore! Why do people give hedgehogs milk, when the prickly things are lactose intolerant? Maybe the legacy of an older folkloric idea, still common in mid C20th Britain, that hedgehogs suckled milk from cows?

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