{"id":20777,"date":"2026-10-28T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/?post_type=beleef&#038;p=20777"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:24:51","slug":"the-turnhout-witch-bottle","status":"publish","type":"beleef","link":"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/en\/beleef\/the-turnhout-witch-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turnhout Witch Bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please note that the podcast is currently available in Dutch only.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turnhout, in the late sixteenth century. A resident of what is now Caf\u00e9 De Zwarte Ruiter buries a tightly sealed jug outside the door. A witch bottle, meant to keep evil forces at bay. Or perhaps to trap a witch inside.\r\n\r\nFor centuries, it remained untouched, until the caf\u00e9 was renovated in 2020. The jug was dug up and the seal broken. The only clue to what it had been used for? A foul-looking sludge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/S2E4-De-heksenfles-van-Turnhout.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1379\" height=\"919\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/S2E4.jpg\" alt=\"Detail from Witch Preparing for the Witches\u2019 Sabbath, showing witches, demons and magical rituals, with the Once Upon a Time in Flanders podcast logo in the top left.\" class=\"wp-image-20760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/S2E4.jpg 1379w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/S2E4-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/S2E4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Witches in Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the late fifteenth century onwards, witchcraft began to take on increasingly recognisable forms in European art. Not because there was ever one fixed image of the witch, but because artists gradually developed a visual repertoire that proved remarkably persistent: naked bodies, skulls, demons, potions, nocturnal gatherings and rituals that seemed to unfold beyond the bounds of ordinary life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Albrecht D\u00fcrer, the meaning remains tantalisingly elusive. His 1497 print is traditionally known as <em>The Four Witches<\/em>, although no convincing explanation has ever established who the women are or exactly what is unfolding before us. A century later, that world has become far more explicit. In the work of David Teniers and in the anonymous depiction of a witches\u2019 sabbath, cauldrons, bottles, demons and magical practices have become part of an established visual language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Artists were not simply recording an existing set of beliefs. Their images also helped shape what witchcraft was imagined to look like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1379\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-1379x2000.webp\" alt=\"Print by Albrecht D\u00fcrer showing four nude women in an interior, with a globe bearing the letters O.G.H. above them and a demonic figure in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-20762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-1379x2000.webp 1379w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-827x1200.webp 827w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-768x1114.webp 768w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-1059x1536.webp 1059w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-1412x2048.webp 1412w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Albrecht-Durer-Vier-heksen-1497-\u00a9-The-Phoebus-Foundation-scaled.webp 1765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Albrecht D\u00fcrer, <em>The Four Witches<\/em>, 1497<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1574\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-1574x2000.webp\" alt=\"Painting by David Teniers II showing a witch seated at a table, surrounded by bottles, magical objects and demonic figures in a dark interior.\" class=\"wp-image-20763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-1574x2000.webp 1574w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-944x1200.webp 944w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-768x976.webp 768w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-1209x1536.webp 1209w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-1611x2048.webp 1611w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/David-Teniers-I-Gifmengende-heks-scaled.webp 2014w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1574px) 100vw, 1574px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Teniers I, <em>Departure for the Witches\u2019 Sabbath with a Witch Mixing Poison<\/em>, seventeenth century<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1561\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-2000x1561.webp\" alt=\"Painting of a witch preparing for the sabbath, surrounded by demons, fire, magical objects and strange creatures in a dark landscape.\" class=\"wp-image-20764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-2000x1561.webp 2000w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-1200x937.webp 1200w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-768x599.webp 768w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-1536x1199.webp 1536w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Anoniem-Heks-die-de-Sabbat-voorbereidt-2048x1598.webp 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unknown master, <em>Witch Preparing for the Witches\u2019 Sabbath<\/em>, <em>c<\/em>.1610\u20131640<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Against Fortune-Tellers and Sorcerers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where artists gave the supernatural a visible form, the Jesuit Joannes David was more concerned with drawing the line between faith and superstition. His <em>Christeliicken waerseggher<\/em>, published in Antwerp in 1602\u20131603, deliberately borrows the language of fortune-telling. Not predictions of what is to come, but lessons in Christian faith and virtue, followed by a Schildt-wacht against \u201cfalse fortune-tellers, sorcerers\u201d and other practices that, in David\u2019s view, led people astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prints leave little room for doubt either. Wisdom begins with the fear of God; to reject God and turn to the devil is to choose folly. Fortune-telling and sorcery are therefore not presented here as a mysterious world to marvel at, but as a field in which faith, knowledge and deception had to be carefully distinguished from one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1046\" height=\"1467\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-Joannes-S.J.-David-Christeliicken-waerseggher-\u00a9-TPF-edited.jpg\" alt=\"Title page of Joannes David, S.J., Christeliicken waerseggher, published in Antwerp in 1602, with references to fortune-tellers, sorcerers and Christian virtue.\" class=\"wp-image-20766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-Joannes-S.J.-David-Christeliicken-waerseggher-\u00a9-TPF-edited.jpg 1046w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-Joannes-S.J.-David-Christeliicken-waerseggher-\u00a9-TPF-edited-856x1200.jpg 856w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/01-Joannes-S.J.-David-Christeliicken-waerseggher-\u00a9-TPF-edited-768x1077.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1046px) 100vw, 1046px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Joannes David, S.J., <em>Christeliicken waerseggher<\/em>, with warnings against fortune-telling and sorcery, 1602<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-1100x2000.webp\" alt=\"Print from Joannes David, S.J.\u2019s Christeliicken waerseggher, showing Death as a crowned skeleton above fallen figures from different social ranks.\" class=\"wp-image-20767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-1100x2000.webp 1100w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-660x1200.webp 660w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-768x1396.webp 768w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-845x1536.webp 845w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-1127x2048.webp 1127w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-86_0_0_300_RGB-scaled.webp 1408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1090\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-1090x2000.webp\" alt=\"Print from Joannes David, S.J.\u2019s Christeliicken waerseggher, featuring an ouroboros as a symbol of eternity, surrounded by demonic figures and fire.\" class=\"wp-image-20768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-1090x2000.webp 1090w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-654x1200.webp 654w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-768x1409.webp 768w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-837x1536.webp 837w, https:\/\/phoebusfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/7034-96_0_0_300_RGB-scaled.webp 1396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1090px) 100vw, 1090px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Once Upon a Time in Flanders<\/em> is a podcast created by Sven Speybrouck and published by Nieuwsblad. Special thanks go to historian Lisa Demets (Ghent University). The podcast was made possible with the support of The Phoebus Foundation SON, Katoen Natie Group, Indaver and Hannibal Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note that the podcast is currently available in Dutch only. Turnhout, in the late sixteenth century. A resident of what is now Caf\u00e9 De Zwarte Ruiter buries a tightly sealed jug outside the door. A witch bottle, meant to keep evil forces at bay. Or perhaps to trap a witch inside. For centuries, it remained untouched, until the caf\u00e9 was renovated in 2020. The jug was dug up and the seal broken. The only clue to what it had been used for? A foul-looking sludge. Witches in Art From the late fifteenth century onwards, witchcraft began to take on increasingly recognisable forms in European art. Not because there was ever one fixed image of the witch, but because artists gradually developed a visual repertoire that proved remarkably persistent: naked bodies, skulls, demons, potions, nocturnal gatherings and rituals that seemed to unfold beyond the bounds of ordinary life. With Albrecht D\u00fcrer, the meaning remains tantalisingly elusive. His 1497 print is traditionally known as The Four Witches, although no convincing explanation has ever established who the women are or exactly what is unfolding before us. A century later, that world has become far more explicit. In the work of David Teniers and in the anonymous depiction of a witches\u2019 sabbath, cauldrons, bottles, demons and magical practices have become part of an established visual language. Artists were not simply recording an existing set of beliefs. Their images also helped shape what witchcraft was imagined to look like. Against Fortune-Tellers and Sorcerers Where artists gave the supernatural a visible form, the Jesuit Joannes David was more concerned with drawing the line between faith and superstition. His Christeliicken waerseggher, published in Antwerp in 1602\u20131603, deliberately borrows the language of fortune-telling. Not predictions of what is to come, but lessons in Christian faith and virtue, followed by a Schildt-wacht against \u201cfalse fortune-tellers, sorcerers\u201d and other practices that, in David\u2019s view, led people astray. The prints leave little room for doubt either. Wisdom begins with the fear of God; to reject God and turn to the devil is to choose folly. Fortune-telling and sorcery are therefore not presented here as a mysterious world to marvel at, but as a field in which faith, knowledge and deception had to be carefully distinguished from one another. Once Upon a Time in Flanders is a podcast created by Sven Speybrouck and published by Nieuwsblad. Special thanks go to historian Lisa Demets (Ghent University). 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