A tall woman in a breastplate and metal cap strides towards the mouth of hell, sword in hand and arms full of loot, while behind her an army of housewives plunders a house. Bruegel fills the burning landscape with monsters in the manner of Bosch. The picture plays on a Flemish proverb and mocks greed and folly.
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A knife hangs at her side and she wears a single mailed glove. Beside her, a monster in a helmet parodies her armour as it pulls up a drawbridge.
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