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the middle of the pifture, furrounded by the demons reprefented in our
cut and by many others; and as he approaches the magician, he is fecn
raifing his right hand in the attitude of pronouncing a benedi6tion, the
apparent confequence of which is a frightful explofion of the magicianis
pot, which flrikes the demons with evident confternation. Nothing can
be more bizarre than the horI'e's head upon human legs in armour, the
parody upon :1 crawling fpider behind it, the ikull (apparently of a horfe)
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fupported upon naked human legs, the fir-angely excited animal behind
the latter, and the figure furniihed with pilgrim's hood and Raff; which
appears to be mocking the faint. Another print--a companion to the
foregoing--reprefents the [till more complete difcomfiture of the magus.
The faint here occupies the right-hand f1de of the pidlure, and is raiting
his hand higher, with apparently a greater {how of authority. The
demons have all turned againft their matter the magician, Whom they are
beating