Pulpit with preacher and listeners, Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism / A Medley (title on object), Text in English in the bottom margin. At the top center of the pulpit, a preacher speaks passionately with witch and devil in his hands, his wig falling off to reveal a Jesuit tonsure. His lyric sheet reads 'I Speak as a Fool'. The decorations on the pulpit refer to superstitions in ghosts. Below, a man takes an icon of the Cock Lane spirit from the bosom of a woman while they are both in religious ecstasy. Below, Mary Toft gives birth to four rabbits. The congregation is in various states of ecstasy, sadness and horror and refer to various folktales about superstition. In the text in the bottom margin, Hogarth refers to the Bible verse John. 4:1-3 which emphasizes believing in only one god., print maker: William Hogarth, after own design by: William Hogarth, 1762, paper, etching, engraving, height 438 mm × width 333 mm, print
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