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This design features Akelarre a Painting by Francisco Goya
It shows the devil in the form of a cabrito, with a coven of disfigured, young and aging witches with neon lights behind them.
The goat possesses large horns and is crowned by a wreath of oak leaves. An old witch holds an emaciated infant in her hands. The devil seems to be feeding on children. The skeletons of two infants can be seen; one discarded to the left, the other held by a crone in the centre foreground.
Typical of the imagery of witchcraft, many of the symbols used are inverted. A number of bats can be seen flying overhead, their flocking motion echoing the curve of the crescent moon.
Interest in the supernatural was a feature of Romanticism, and is to be found for example in Weber's opera Der Freischütz. However, in a Spanish context, Goya's paintings have been seen as a protest against those who upheld and enforced the values of the Spanish Inquisition, which had been active in Witch hunting during the seventeenth-century Basque witch trials.
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