The Night-hag Visiting The Lapland Witches
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The Night-hag Visiting The Lapland Witches[1] (c. 1796) is a painting by Henry Fuseli currently located at Metropolitan Museum of Art .
- "This canvas, first exhibited in 1799, was sold by the artist in 1808 to his biographer, John Knowles. It illustrates a passage from Paradise Lost (II:622–66) in which the hellhounds surrounding Sin are compared to those who "follow the night-hag when, called, / In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance / With Lapland witches, while the laboring moon Eclipses at their charms." "Night-hag" is an epithet of the Greek goddess Hecate, who presided over witchcraft and magical rites." --The Met
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