We remain forever obsessed with this image of a woman terrifying the devil himself with her pussy but did you know there's context? Who wants to hear the context for why the devil is so frightened by a vulva? 
btw if anything, the context is weirder than the image
So this pic of a lady scaring the devil with her clunge is an 1896 illustration by Charles Eisen of the poem "The Devil of Pope Fig Island" by Jean de la Fontaine, a 17th century French fabulist.
The devil has turned up on this island, and he's going around terrorising the villagers, as devils do. You know, cuckolding wives, nicking people's crops, generally making life crappy.
The devil decides to fuck with this farmer called Phil, and demands the guy gives him half of his crops. The farmer decides to trick the devil by giving him what he asked for, literally - the half that's basically leaves rather than the actual veg.
And the devil is pretty pissed off by this and kind of embarrassed. So he decides to punish the farmer.
The farmer is obviously quite frightened by this, and goes crying to his wife. His wife is like "babe, chill, I've got this, I have more power in my little finger than that jerk".
OK, she says it a bit more floridly, she actually says, "My little finger, if I like can show / More malice than his head and body know." But that's the gist.
When the devil turns up, the farmer goes and hides in a vat of holy water because he's scared and has made the very good decision to just let his wife handle the whole thing.
The wife (her name is Perretta) turns on the tears and cries to the devil about how her husband is a very strong and scary man who beats her. She's like "he is SO scary, look at this wound he gave me".
And she lifts up her skirts and shows the devil her vulva.
The devil has never seen a vulva before (presumably when he was off cuckolding he was doing it in the dark or with his eyes closed or something). He is HORRIFIED by this enormous wound this poor lady has.
And he's like "holy crap, I fucked with the wrong guy, this man is scary af" So he fucks off, and leaves that village alone, and then everybody claps and Perretta is a hero.
You can read the entire poem here allpoetry.com/The-Devil-Of-P…
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