Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 156
Fig. 191. [D.] EXORCISM. 145 against diabolism and witchcraft, but prescribed allmanner of recipes by which the devil might be exorcised,such as the sign of the cross, holy water, the judicioususe of salt, the name of the Holy Trinity. In Fig. 192 wehave an example of exorcism by sprinkling with… … Fig. 192.—BXOBCISM. a foxs brush, as is indicated by the modern Frenchname goupillon, but was anciently made of hj^ssop, a plantsup})osed to possess cleansing virtues (see Psalm li. 7.)[This illustration is taken from a manuscript in theBibliothèque de Chartres, No. 1380.] In the thirteenth century…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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