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Figure 1. Engraving by Pieter van der Heijden after Pieter Brueghel's De heks van Mallegem. The witch of Mallegem comes to the country fair to be cured of the buzzing in her ears (the "wasp in her head"). Meester Ian, the "doctor," shows a stone he pretends to have removed from the head of the patient leaning on the bench in front of him. In the collection of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.