Keyword: Switzerland – Image Gallery | Sacrifiles

Keyword: Switzerland – Image Gallery

Luyken, Jan

Drowning of Heinrich Sumer and Jakob Mandel (1685)

from: Braght, T. J. van. Martyrs' Mirror, book 2, 1685, p. 750

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Topics:
6. Sacrifices of self: Martyrology after Reformation (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: AnabaptismMartyrologyMoraviaSwitzerland

Gieng, Hans

Kindlifresserbrunnen (Child Eater Fountain). This figure goes probably back to the carnivalesque image of the child-eater, which has been linked both to Saturn and to the blood-libel against Jews (1542)

Bern, Switzerland.

Topics:
2. Sacrifice and religion: Comparisons, Antiquarians, Anthropology (16^th-18^th Century)

Keywords: Blood LibelChild SacrificeSwitzerland