The Horror is Real

Goya’s supernatural works hide terrible truths about Spanish history.

Steven Gambardella

--

Francisco Goya, Witches in Flight, 1797–98

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Partially naked witches wearing coned hats levitate in the night sky clutching a naked man struggling against them. They appear to be biting him.

Immediately below them a man with his head covered in a blanket stumbles forward blindly with his arms out, he…

--

--

Steven Gambardella

History PhD. The lessons of history and philosophy for your life and work. Writes The Sophist: https://sophist.substack.com/