The biblical witch of Endor is the most frequently depicted witch in European history. Although the necromantic and divinatory services she provides for King Saul (1 Samuel 28) feature in biblical exegesis from the third century, the village woman assumes visual form only in the twelfth century and takes on the attributes of witchcraft in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the focus of this paper, the dramatic increase in the number of images of this woman, and their appearance in a range of media and in quite different literary contexts, transform her, I would argue, into a general model for witchcraft.