From A Round of Birthdays by Prescott Bailey Bull and illustrated by Eleanor Withey Willard, 1897.

"The night the witches wander."  From The Link, 1948.

The Best Halloween Book by Lenore Dolan, 1931.

From Peasblossom, the Adventures of the Pine Tree Fairy and Others by Mabel Blodgett, 1917.

From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)  See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.

From Salem's 1932 yearbook.  See this remarkable guide to practial magick you can do with a pencil and paper: The Pencil Witch.

"Perhaps there are but two witches in the world, who are born into it again and again" (Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator).  From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

Is that a precursor to Spongebob?  From Wesleyan College's 1967 yearbook.

Her eye is a planchette!  From The Spooktator, Oct. 24, 1997.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)

"Take it or leave it."  From Northern Junket, 1972.

From Duke's 1924 yearbook.

By H. Kley.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.

By Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, in Forum, 1914.

You know that there were, famously, two actors who played Darrin Stephens in the classic series Bewitched.  But in 14 episodes, the role was handled by neither Dick York nor Dick Sargent.  Who was this virtually unknown third Darrin?  (Hint: it was neither of their stunt doubles, nor is it an "Alan Smithee" who disavowed being associated with the series.)  The answer is actually difficult to talk about, because in 14 episodes the character of Darrin was played by a non-entity: not merely an invisible man, but an anti-person, if you will a Ne'er N. Stephens.  Though spoken to on the telephone, and performing his advertising job either at the office or out of town, Mr. Nobody played Darrin.  The key issue is that the character still figured into these plots — his presence and importance was never ignored.  Darrin existed in those 14 episodes, though played by a no-name, a zero.

An illustration by Anton Otto Fischer.  From Hearst's International, 1921.

Here's a Bewitched (Season 4, Ep. 6) precursor to How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  The captions read, "You should see what she wrote in the class yearbook: 'Roses are red, violets are blue; it may take a while, but I'll get you."  How and why this works is explained in the book.

From Sekira, 1906.