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  1. Here are the various paintings, sketches, woodscuts, drawings, &c. from the opening credits of “Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi”/“Witching & Bitching” (2013) in order of appearance:
  2. I) A 1520 engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi depicting a group on their way to the witches sabbath: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raimondi_Genga_Sur_le_chemin_du_Sabbat.jpg
  3. II) An engraving of Mother Shipton, Ursula Southeil (ca. 1488 – 1561), who was an English prophetess. According to legend her mother, Agatha, was impregnated by the Devil, and Mother Shipton was said to be extraordinarily ugly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Shipton
  4. III) A woodcut by Hans Baldung (Grien), dated October 1508, depicting a witches sabbath: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baldung_Hexen_1508_kol.JPG – the same artist also has a rather interesting drawing of three witches celebrating the new year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baldung_hexen_ca1514.jpg
  5. IV) this listed in the end credits as “16th century print of people burning three witches alive”
  6. V) A drawing of Jeanne d’Arc being burned alive
  7. VI) A drawing by Rudolf Cronau (1855 – 1939) of witches being burned
  8. VII) The engraving “The Four Witches” from 1497 by Albrecht Dürer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Witches
  9. VIII) A ca. 1615 painting by Peter Paul Rubens depicting the celebration of Bacchanalia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Bacchanalia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
  10. IX) A painting from ca. 1520 of the Roman goddess Flora by Bartolomeo Veneto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora_(mythology)#In_art
  11. X) A painting from 1550 attributed to Jacopino del Conte, depicting Lucretia committing suicide – in the recent TV-series “Spartacus” she was played by Lucy Lawless: https://galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it/en/opere/lucretia/
  12. XI) A lithograph from 1892 depicting the Salem witch trials: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salem_witch2.jpg
  13. XII) The painting “Faust’s Dream” or “Faust’s Vision” by Luis Ricardo Falero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Faust%27s_Dream,_by_Luis_Ricardo_Falero.jpg
  14. XIII) Another painting by Falero, titled “Witches going to their Sabbath”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Witches_going_to_their_Sabbath,_by_Luis_Ricardo_Falero.jpg
  15. XIV) A (German?) drawing depicting witches flying their brooms to celebrate Walpurgis Night
  16. XV) Another painting by Luis Ricardo Falero, titled “The Witches Sabbath”: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_witches_Sabbath,_by_Luis_Ricardo_Falero.jpg
  17. XVI) A photo of actress Theda Bara posing with a human skeleton
  18. XVII) A drawing of a skeleton surrounded by stylised roses
  19. XVIII) A photo of Mata Hari
  20. XIX) The drawing “Linda maestra!” (“Pretty teacher!”) by Francisco Goya: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goya_-_Caprichos_(68).jpg
  21. XX) A detail of an anatomical drawing depicting a foetus in the womb by da Vinci?
  22. XXI) A photo of Eva Braun taken from her personal photo album
  23. XXII) A photo of four elderly women having tea dressed as witches, probably from the very early 1900s at the latest
  24. XXIII) A photo of the Venus of Willendorf figurine
  25. XXIV) The Burney Relief, possibly depicting the goddess Ishtar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burney_Relief
  26. XXV) A variant of the portrait painting of Mary I of England aka “Bloody Mary” by Antonis Mor
  27. XXVI) A modified(?) version of a drawing(?) of Medusa by Antony Frederick Augustus Sandys
  28. XXVII) A photo of the limestone bust “Lady of Elche”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_Elche
  29. XXVIII) A photo of actress Greta Garbo
  30. XXIX) On the left a miniature portrait of Marie Antoinette, aged 13, by Joseph Ducreux from 1769: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Antoinette_by_Joseph_Ducreux.jpg – on the right a portrait of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, Duchess of Pastrana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_de_Mendoza_y_de_Silva,_Princess_of_%C3%89boli
  31. XXX) An unknown figurine
  32. XXXI) A photo of actress Marlene Dietrich
  33. XXXII) Close-up of a raven’s eye
  34. XXXIII) A photo of French communist and feminist Simone Beauvoir: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir
  35. XXXIV) A photo of actress Bette Davis
  36. XXXV) A photo of English murderess Myra Hindley, who was one of the two serial killers who carried out “the Moor murders” in the 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders
  37. XXXVI) Another anatomical drawing of foetuses in their womb – unknown source/artist
  38. XXXVII) Photo of Angela Merkel
  39. XXXVIII) Photo of Leni Riefenstahl
  40. XXXIX) Photo of Mexican communist Frida Kahlo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
  41. XL) Photo of British P.M. Margaret Thatcher
  42. XLI) A compilation of different images showing the Venus of Willendrof as the centre of a circle, surrounded by astrological symbols – possibly alluding to how the witches see their goddess and idea of radical feminism as the centre of their lives, and the most important thing in the world.
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