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Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 51: They s...

This business of having long nails is so pernicious that it is forbidden even in Witchcraft.  Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) was a legendary Spanish painter and printmaker...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 50: The Ch...

He who hears nothing, knows nothing and does nothing, belongs to the numerous family of the Chinchillas, which has always been good for nothing. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 48: Snitch...

The tale-bearing witches are the most irritating in all witchcraft and the least intelligent in that art; if they really knew something they wouldn’t blast about it. Francisco José de...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 47: A gift...

That is quite right; they would be ungrateful pupils not to visit their professor to whom they own everything they know in their diabolical science. Francisco José de Goya y...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 46: Correc...

Without correction and censure one cannot get on in any faculty, and that of witchcraft needs uncommon talent, application, maturity, submission and docility to the advice of the great Witch...

Los Caprichos (The Caprices) – Plate 45: There ...

Those who reach eighty suck little children; those under 18 suck grown ups. It seems man is born and lives to have substance sucked out of him.  Francisco José de...