In honour of Halloween aka Samhain, it’s only fitting to look at some of the most alluring representations of witches in history and art. It’s the time of the year when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest.

Witches have been known over the centuries as those who have the most power in making this connection with the spirit world.

Read on to explore history’s most mystical witches and artists’ varying depictions of these skilled and sometimes misunderstood beings.

Maurice Denis was a French painter known for his symbolistic artworks including the series of paintings about the mythologic story of Psyche of the same name.

Jacques-Joseph Tissot was born in 1836, in Nantes in a seaport on the French coast. He travelled to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he met and became friends with James McNiell Whistler and Edgar Degas.

I’m a firm believer that having something or someone to hold us accountable is a sure way for us to succeed. But what about holding ourselves accountable and being your own mentor?