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    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the *Divina Commedia* (1855/1872)
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    Music & Arts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s *Genesis* (1924)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Music & Arts

    “Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)

    Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ *Lapponia* (1682)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Colonialism & the 'Other'

    Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)

    *Antiquities of Mexico* (1831–48)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Customs & Culture, Design & Typography

    Programming Prayer: The Woven Book of Hours (1886–87)

    Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Drugs, Natural World, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

    Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany
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    Strange Phenomena, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ *Passio Verbigenae* (ca. 1580)
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    Design & Typography, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Grotesqueries at Gethsemane: Marcus Gheeraerts’ Passio Verbigenae (ca. 1580)

    Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)
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    Animals & Beasts, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Tales of the Catfish God: Earthquakes in Japanese Woodblock Prints (1855)

    Ikkyū in Hell: *Skeletons* (1692)
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    Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

    A Melting Cauldron: *The Book of Hallowe’en* (1919)
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    Customs & Culture, Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe’en (1919)

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)
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    Politics, War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Käthe Kollwitz’s Peasants’ War Series (ca. 1901–1908)

    Hokusai’s *Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China* (1836)
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    War, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (1836)

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Medieval Illustrations of Bonnacons

    *Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship* (1890)
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    Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

    Law and Ordure: *Scatalogic Rites of All Nations* (1891)
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    Customs & Culture, Food, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Law and Ordure: Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891)

    *Dool-Hoff*: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)
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    Wisdom, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at its Centre (1705)

    James Ensor, *The Deadly Sins* (ca. 1904)
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    Death, Religion, Myth & Legend

    James Ensor, The Deadly Sins (ca. 1904)

    *Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales* (1922)
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    Animals & Beasts, Customs & Culture, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1922)

    Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend, Astronomy & Space

    Wheels Within Wheels: The “Flammarion Engraving” (ca. 1888)

    The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    The Blood Collages of John Bingley Garland (ca. 1850–60)

    Howard Pyle's *The Mermaid* (1910)
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    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend

    Howard Pyle's The Mermaid (1910)

    *Unai no tomo*: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)
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    Religion, Myth & Legend

    Unai no tomo: Catalogues of Japanese Toys (1891–1923)