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October 30, 2006: In Search of Halloween at the National Library of Scotland
"Where better to start than the first ever printed image of witches on a broomstick (pictured overleaf)? Held in the collections of both the National Library of Scotland and Glasgow University Library, this lively woodcut was made in 1489 to illustrate the Latin Book Of Witches And Pythonic Women. Writing in the form of a dialogue, German lawyer Ulrich Molitor debated the vexed question of whether or not witches really existed, and concluded that they did."
