Images

Henry Cavill in The Witcher (2019) by Netflix. The image portrays a modern reimagination of Slavic Kikimora. © Netflix

Slavic ghost Kikimora, illustration by Tatiana Hippius published on 15 October 1909.

Detail of the mural by Said Musa, presenting Yemaya, an Orisha from Yoruba religion. In Catholic Central and South America and the Caribbean, Yoruba religion became syncretized with Christianity and Yemaya was associated with the Virgin Mary...

A statue of an Orisha from the Yoruba religion, Nigeria, 19th century. African Museum of Lyon.

Oduduwa Statue, Oduduwa Shrine and Grove, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Oduduwa is Orisha (or god) who is thought to have made the Yoruba people and established life at the city of Ife (also Ile-Ife) as well as the concept of cultural identity...

A map illustrating the current archeological evidence for the spread of the Scythians in the northern Black Sea region. It shows the distribution of the most notable ‘kurgans’ and monumental burial sites of the riding nomads of the Scythian...

A typical sentence for the most notorious pirate captains during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730) was to be hanged and then have the corpse hung in a cage to rot. The idea was that mariners passing the shore would see this punishment...

A map illustrating the four voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas between 1492 and 1504 superimposed on a scheme of the predominant ocean currents and winds of the North Atlantic.

An 1846 illustration of the pirate Mary Read (d. 1721) by Alexandre Debelle. (From Histoire des pirates et corsaires de l'Océan et de la Méditerranée depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours, P. Christian, Paris, Cavaillès, 1846)

Ruth and Naomi, oil on canvas painting by Philip Hermogenes Calderon, 1886. Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.