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Tarot cards. Hand hovering over a display of tarot cards, the so-called Rider-Waite deck. ©Charles Walker / Topfoto / The Image Works
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Wizard of Oz. Dorothy and the munchkins. Dorothy and Toto meet the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins. First published: 1900 ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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Roof sculptures, Witch scarers, La Pedrera, Casa Mila, Barcelona, Spain. ©Antonio GaudiMel Longhurst / Impact / HIP / The Image Works Spain
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Buffalo hide shield cover, Crow, Native American, 19th century. Shield cover which was painted with a design with magical powers which would protect the owner. The supernatural powers of the bear (shown here) would protect the owner from the flying bullets represented on the left of the shield. From the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. ©Werner Forman / HIP / The Image Works
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Togo, Voodoo Religions: A man blowing smoke over fetish objects. The festival of healing God Flimani koku in Voodoo. Hundreds of believers come from a village of Ewe tribes offer a dance, the song of rapture, and the blood of the animal. © Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher / HAGA / The Image Works
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The Master Mystery, silent film, USA 1919, Burton King; Buch: Arthur B. Reeve, Charles A. Logue; Harry Houdini. American film poster. Color lithograph printed by Otis Lithograph Co. Private collection. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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Derby, Connecticut: Elementary school sixth grade girl, 12, looks at her Palm Pilot that contains the Wizard of Oz book as she waits before her appearance on stage as the Wicked Witch of the West in the school's production of The Wizard of Oz. ©Peter Hvizdak / The Image Works
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Sorceress and the King's children, 1909. ©ILB Bildyra / HIP / The Image Works
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Paper amulet in the form of a seated black cat, worn by a soldier during First World War. London, England. c1914 - 18. ©SSPL / Science Museum / The Image Works
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Witches incantating around a cauldron, sacrificing various animals and birds, in order to make rain. From Ulrich Molitor De Lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus, 1489. ©Charles Walker / Topham / The Image Works
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A witch doctor of Guinea performs magic for a client while his assistant performs on the drums. A cock has been killed and other accessories are strewed on the ground. c1836. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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'The Magic Crystal', c 1904. - Photograph by Gertrude Kasebier (1852-1934). ©SSPL / NMeM / Royal Photographic Society / The Image Works
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Detail of a life-size guardian figure meant to ward off evil spirits. Country of Origin: India. Place of Origin: Nicobar Islands. Material Size: Painted wood, shell inlaid eyes. ©Werner Forman / Topham / The Image Works
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The great sage Douban versed in the wisdom of the philosophers, and also acquainted with languages, astrology and medicine. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / Douglas McCarthy / The Image Works
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A Pan-like Devil dancing with other dimunitive demons and their minion witches to the sound of pipe-music. The demon carries a candle, horn and broomstick. 17th century print. ©Charles Walker/ Topham / The Image Works
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Cinderella, drawn by Edmund Dulac from Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross (1915). Caption reads: There said her godmother, pointing with her wand, 'Pick it and bring it along.' French born illustrator 22 October 1882 - 25 May 1953. ©Lebrecht / The Image Works
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Mixtec, Mexico: Codex Cospi, magical calendar, c1350 - 1500. From the Biblioteca Universitaria, Bologna, Italy. ©Werner Forman / HIP / The Image Works
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Poster for the magician 'Durga' c1909/ Print: Adolph Friedlaender, Hamburg, Germany. ©akg-images / The Image Works
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The Devil exchanges copies of his own book of magic spells for the Bible. c1626 ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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The crystal ball of Dr.John Dee (1527-1608), the most notorious magician and mystic of the Elizabethan era. Country of Origin: England. Date/Period: 16th Century. ©Werner Forman/Topham/The Image Works
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By order of the emperor Tiberius, the popular magician L Pituanius, perceived as an enemy of the state, is thrown from the Tarpeian Rock, Rome c30 ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works<br>
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A dancer's masquette which was worn on the forehead. The feather appendages had magical or other symbolic significance. Country of Origin: USA. Culture: Eskimo. Material Size: Inlaid ivory, bead, feathers. ©Werner Forman / Topham / The Image Works
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Carving of Tupilak, a grotesque evil spirit which was half raven, half dead child. Such figures were used by shamans to inflict harm on people. BM 1944 Am 2.6 Country of Origin: Greenland. Culture: Eskimo. ©Werner Forman / Topham / The Image Works
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Hanged cursed doll, skewered through with a rusty nail. This is one of the traditional form of sympathetic black magic, by which an image is used to convey pain, illness or death to a specific, named, victim. ©Charles Walker / Topham / The Image Works
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Female witch doctor of the Usumbura region of East Africa. c1905. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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Fortune telling manual, 'Le Quadruple Oracle' a popular French guide to fortune telling for 'des dames et des demoiselles'. Early 20th century. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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Illustration by Arthur Rackman. Little people offering a maid a magic cup. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / Arthur Rackman / The Image Works
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Sri Lankan witch doctor, or Kattadiya, holding a bottle that was stated to contain an evil demon that had been exorcised from a possessed person. It will be thrown into the Indian Ocean. ©Fortean / Topham / The Image Works
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Asbury Park, NJ: Madam Marie's Tarot Card booth along the boardwalk in Asbury Park, NJ. ©Chet Gordon / The Image Works
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Costume designs probably for the characters, Kostchei, the wizard, and Ivan, the hero prince for the ballet 'Firebird'. ©Mary Evans Picture Library / The Image Works
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