No go the bogeyman: scaring, lulling, and making mock

Scaring

'Here comes the Bogeyman!'

Reflection: Goya: 'Saturn devouring his child'

'My father he ate me'

Reflection: the nyumphaeum of the Emperor Tiberius

Polyp and the Cyclops

Devil's banquet

Reflection: the Feast of Corpus Christi, 1996: the Patum of Berga, Catalonia

'Hoc est corpus'

'Now ... we can begin to feed'

'Terrors properly applied'

Lulling

Reflection: Caravaggio: the rest on the flight into Egypt

'Sing now mother ... what me shall befall'

'Herod the King, in his raging'

'And thou, oh nightengale'

Making Mock

Reflection: Louis Desprez: the Chimera

'In the genre of the monstrous'

Circe's swine: 'Wizard and Brute'

'All my business is my song'

'Fee fie fo fum'

'Of the paltriness of things'

Reflection: Albert Eckhout: eight Brazilian portraits

Going bananas

Snip! Snap! Snip!