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Burning of witches in Wittenberg, woodcut showing the burning of four persons as witches in Wittenberg in 1540 as a pamphlet for deterrence. According to contemporary witnesses, the victims are roasted alive on pillars in a particularly cruel manner by being set up on oak pillars, forged and miserably smoked and dried out with fire, like bricks. Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time.
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Burning of witches in Wittenberg, woodcut showing the burning of four persons as witches in Wittenberg in 1540 as a pamphlet for deterrence. According to contemporary witnesses, the victims are roasted alive on pillars in a particularly cruel manner by being set up on oak pillars, forged and miserably smoked and dried out with fire, like bricks. Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the time
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Album / ImageBroker / Sunny Celeste
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Image size:
466 x 600 px | 819.1 KB
Print size:
3.9 x 5.1 cm | 1.6 x 2.0 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
4 PEOPLE • 4 • ADULT • ADULTS • ALIVE • ART WORK • ARTWORK • ARTWORKS • AUTODAFE • BLACK AND WHITE • BLACK • BLACK-AND-WHITE • BLACK-WHITE • BREEDING • BRICK • BRICKS • BRUTAL • BRUTALITIES • BRUTALITY • BUILDING MATERIAL • BUILDING_MATERIAL • BUNCH OF • BURN • BURNING AT STAKE • BURNING OF HERETICS • BURNING OF WITCHES • BURNING • BURNINGS OF WITCHES • BURNINGS • CENTRAL EUROPE • CHURCH HISTORY • COLUMN • CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL • CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS • CONTEMPORARY WITNESS • CONTEMPORARY WITNESSES • CONTEMPORARY • COPY • CRUEL • DEATH AT STAKE • DEATH AT THE STAKE • DEPICTION • DEPICTIONS • DETERRENCE • DETERRENT • DIGITAL • DIGITALLY • DRAWING • DRAWINGS • DRAWN • EAST GERMANY • EASTERN GERMANY • ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY • EUROPE'S • EUROPE • EXECUTION • EXECUTIONS • FAIRY TALE • FAIRY TALES • FAIRYTALE • FEMALE • FEMALENESS • FEMALES • FEMININITY • FIRE • FIRES • FLAME • FLAMES • FORMER • FORMERLY • FOUR PEOPLE • FOUR • FRG • FRIED • FUNERAL PYRE • GERMAN FEDERAL REPUBLIC • GERMAN • GERMANS • GERMANY • HISTORIC ILLUSTRATION • HISTORIC ILLUSTRATIONS • HISTORIC • HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATION • HISTORICAL • HISTORY • HUMAN BEING • HUMAN • HUMANE • HUMANITY • ILLUSTRATION • IMAGE MOTIF • IMAGE • INDICATE • INDIVIDUAL • LIGHTED • LIVING • LUTHER • LUTHERSTADT WITTENBERG • MARTIN LUTHER • MIDDLE EUROPE • MOTIF • MULTIPLE • MYTH • MYTHS • PEOPLE • PERSON • PERSONS • PILLAR • PILLARS • POINT • POINTING • POPULAR BELIEF • RECONSTRUCTION • RED COLOURED • RED • REDDISH • REFORMATION • REFORMER • REFORMERS • REFURBISHMENT • RELIGION • RELIGIONS • REPLICA • REPLICATION • REPRESENTATION • REPRODUCTION • REPUBLIC OF GERMANY • RESTORATION WORK • RESTORATION • RESTORATIONS • RESTORED • ROAST • ROASTED • SAXONY-ANHALT • SCARE OFF • SCARING OFF • SEVERAL • SHOW • SKETCH • SOCIAL • STAKE (EXECUTION) • STAKE • STAKE, DEATH BY BURNING • STAKES • STIR-FRIED • TALE • THEOLOGIAN • THEOLOGIANS • TIME • TODAY • TORMENTER • VICTIM • VICTIMS • VINTAGE • VIOLENCE • VIOLENCIA • VIOLENT • WHITE • WITCH • WITCHES • WITTENBER • WITTENBERG • WOMAN • WOMANLINESS • WOMEN • WOODCUT • WOODCUTS • WOODPRINT • WORK OF ART • XYLOGRAPH • XYLOGRAPHY
