NOTES
As such works must have pictures, Circe is set forth by a page cut of a very ugly old woman in the most modern costume of shawl and mob cap with ribbons. She is holding an ordinary candlestick. It is quite the ideal of a common fortune teller, and it is probably that the words Maga Circe suggested nothing more or less than such a person to him who 'made up' the book. That of Medea is, however, quite correct, even artistic, representing the sorceress as conjuring the magic bath, and was probably taken from some work on mythology. It is ever so in Italy, where the most grotesque and modern conceptions of classic subjects are mingled with much that is accurate and beautiful - of which indeed this work supplies many examples.
[Aradia:
Gospel of the Witches]
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