During the witch panics of the Middle Ages, authorities confiscated various brews, ointments, and salves from people accused of witchcraft and sorcery. In the early 1500s, ...

A toad excavated from a woman's chest (left) "proves" that she was a witch, in a German print from about 1500. The Duckingstool, by Charles Stanley Reinhart, ...

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