[Three witches standing around a boiling cauldron; above them hovers a devil(?)] – Vintage Wall Art
![[Three witches standing around a boiling cauldron; above them hovers a devil(?)], 1940 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/halloween/img/f5/f5568f791eab-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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[Three witches standing around a boiling cauldron; above them hovers a devil(?)] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The picture shows three witches gathered over a bubbling cauldron, with a horned figure that may be a devil hovering overhead, though the record leaves that identification uncertain. The image is a photograph of an original drawing, made in 1940 for the New York World-Telegram and Sun's newspaper files. Witches stirring a cauldron became a stock Halloween image in the early twentieth century, drawing on the kettle scene in Shakespeare's *Macbeth*, and newspapers often ran such art for autumn features.
| Created / published | 1940 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photograph of a drawing. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress |
| Original scan | 2,537 × 3,648 px · prints to 8 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3c24465_Threewitchesstandingaroundaboi |
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