An illustration from Sing Song by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1893).

"As I looked something dark and formless seemed to rise from the crock; but I saw nothing distinctly."  From The Birthright by Joseph Hocking, 1897.

The owls come to supper with her. From Mum Fidgets by Constance Milman (1892).

An illustration from Bill Nye's History of the United States (1894).  The caption reads: "Opening of the witch-hunting season."

An illustration from Modern Housekeeping (1905).

The witch of Ben Y Gloe from The Art of Deer Stalking by William Scrope (1839).

An illustration from Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).  The caption reads: "In ecstacy—believing themselves flying through the air on broomsticks and having communications with Satan."

An illustration from Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).  The caption reads: "Supposed witches in auto-hypnotized somnambulistic state."

An illustration from Other Stories by E. H. Knatchbull Hugessen (1880).

"Why don't you call those phrases what they really are, cliches?" —Bewitched, season six

A pipe smoking black cat and its witchy familiar fly on a broomstick under cover of chimney smoke. An illustration from an 1860 issue of Punch magazine.

We've heard the nursery rhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe, but here's an old witch who commutes in one.  From Punch, 1860.

Before "snail mail" there was "butterfly mail," as we see in the sixth season of Bewitched.

The spirit of the teapot: an illustration from an 1862 issue of Punch magazine.  The caption reads: "Now then, I'm ready if you are..."

This moment in Bewitched, in which Serena confesses she can't boil water, is a precursor to our "One Hundred Ways I've Failed to Boil Water" (here's the interactive version, and here are all 100 ways in a concise grid.)

Blowhard wasn't exactly the word he was looking for: a still from Bewitched.

The concept of de-evolution is that humankind is regressing, as evidenced by the dysfunction and herd mentality of American society.  The idea was developed in the late 1960s by the founders of the band Devo.  Could they have been inspired by this 1964 episode of Bewitched?