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K. Poland his wife and children devoured by rats
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
This probably refers to King Popielius, or Popiel, of Poland, who was said to have been eaten by rats along with his wife and children, in A.D. 830.
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people, death, rats, towers, castles, colour
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Poland
Added: 2006-10-29
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Seamen in great distress eat one another
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
These sailors have only a tattered sail on their mast, and are in a small lifeboat in a raging storm, with a sea inhabited by a strange giant fish. A sailor near the stern of the boat is about to be [...]
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boats, people, storms, ships, fish, waves, food, colour
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none
Added: 2006-11-04
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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88”“henrythe Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death ofThomas Becket, whom the Pope made St.Thomasfor opposin [...]
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penance, punishments, religion, people, royalty, bare feet, woodcuts, cathedrals, interiors, monks, religion, christianity, grayscale
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Canterbury; Kent; England
Added: 2005-02-26
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Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
The chapter heading isChap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page sayThe woful Deaths of Wick [...]
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punishments, religion, people, royalty, death, woodcuts, justice, animals, dogs, carriages, city walls, bone, greyscale
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Prague; Bohemia
Added: 2006-03-16
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A Blasphemer turned into a black dog
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog.
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religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky, greyscale
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Added: 2006-04-27
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A Woman torn in pieces by the Devil. pa. 14.
Wonderful Prodigies of Judgement and Mercy (1685)
The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text:XVII. AtOster, a Village inGermany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, both [...]
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religion, people, spooky, greyscale
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Oster; Mosel; Germany
Added: 2006-07-28
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