How and why are sorceresses and wizards depicted in the modern world in this way and not otherwise! Where did certain canons of images of witches come from?

A woman flying through the night sky on a broomstick. A gray-bearded old man with a staff, wrapped in a long cloak. These images of witches and wizards appeared in modern culture under the influence of medieval images - and most of our fantasy universes are based on ideas about magic that developed in Western Europe in the 14th-17th centuries. This book will focus on the visual origins of an imaginary magical world. How did artists depict famous sorcerers and sorceresses of the past? What role did iconography play in the witch hunt? And why did thousands of magicians all over Europe follow the directions of illustrated grimoires, witchcraft books? This study will lead us to images that are easily recognizable today from films, music and computer games: the magic wand and witch's broom from fantasy, the satanic pentagram from horror films and the black goat from rock music. A thousand years of medieval magic have not sunk into oblivion, but have left a deep mark on modern culture.

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