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An early 18th-century caricature of Nostradamus.

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"Luna" from the Codex De Sphaera, in the Biblioteca Estense, Modena.

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Fortune-teller Denise Fontaine reads the future in a glass ball in France, 1962.

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A witch being subjected to the water test, circa 1600.

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Italian illumination of mandrake from the House book of the Cerruti, now in the Austrian National Library, Vienna.

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