"The Magic Cirle, 1886" by Waterhouse shows a woman in pale shiny grey dress around a boiling cauldron and drawing a circle on the ground in some pagan witchcraft ceremony. The presence of steam arising upwards from the pot is rendered in realistic white, and the rich brown hair of the girl is complemented by the dark hues of the bleak landscape. The presence of black chickens and the not completed drawing of the circle suggests that their will be a sacrifice to dark forces.
