Pretty Teacher! (Los Caprichos, Plate 68)

This etching depicts an older, hag-like figure flying through the air on a broomstick, supporting a younger, unclothed woman who clings to her back. An owl soars nearby, watching the pair as they navigate the desolate landscape below. The image uses sharp contrast and textured shadows to evoke a sense of nocturnal mystery and the uncanny.

The work reflects the Enlightenment-era shift in representing witchcraft, moving from the literal theological fear of the early modern period toward an exploration of psychological darkness and the irrational. It engages with the long-standing European folkloric and occult tradition of the witches' flight and the transmission of arcane knowledge from elder to initiate.