Scenes of Witchcraft: Day

Rosa's Scenes of Witchcraft: Day completes the Cleveland cycle — a daylight witchcraft scene that demonstrates how completely the occult world interspersed with ordinary life in his conception. The daylight setting made Rosa's practitioners less dramatically lit but arguably more unsettling, their activities rendered in the clear visibility of normal experience rather than sheltered by concealing darkness. The cycle's temporal organization — morning, day, evening, night — suggested that supernatural transgression was not confined to night's concealment but was continuous with ordinary temporal experience, a disturbing claim about the permeability between the social world and its supernatural underside.

Rosa renders the daytime scene with brighter, more varied tones than the other panels, creating an unsettling contrast between normal daylight and supernatural activity. The landscape is painted with characteristic wildness, while the figures are depicted with the gestural, expressive brushwork that defines Rosa's unique approach.