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

An illustration from The Sociable Ghost by Olive Harper (1903).  The caption reads: "They had evidently found the buffet."

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).

An illustration from an 1896 issue of Punch magazine.

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.

"The Rival Moons": an illustration from a 1912 issue of Puck 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.

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..."

An illustration from an 1859 issue of Punch magazine.

The right word is witch in the classic sitcom Bewitched.

An illustration from an 1851 issue of Punch magazine.

A portrait of a British novelist at home:  an illustration from an 1899 issue of The Idler magazine.

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Wide World magazine.  The caption reads: "I was soon enveloped in the fiery tongues of flame."