The Snake Symbolizes Something Unconscious; It Is The Instinctive Movement Or Tendency; It Shows The

The figure of Melusine, at the 16th century sculpture garden of Bomarzo, Italy.

Edit after Eugène Leroux and Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (Drie heksen uit Shakespeares Macbeth) (Rijksmuseum) (Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)

An 11th century “ornamental shield” that was carved from an elk's antler, found in the funerary chapel of Louis the Pious in Metz, France.

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Night is not less wonderful than the day . . . it is lit by the splendor of the stars and it reveals things to us that the day does not know. Night is closer than day to the mystery of all beginning. The abyss is open only by night: day spreads a veil over it.

Nicolas Berdyaev, "The Middle Ages"

Claude Paradin, Devises Héroïques, 1551

Hand and a half sword, Germany, circa 1510

from The Victoria & Albert Museum

'Witches' Conclave' from the book "The Phynodderree, and other legends of the Isle of Man" (1882)

From Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1611).