Max Ernst

The Interpretations of Max Ernst's etchings in his book The Seven Deadly Elements

1) The lady looks like she is dancing or swaying to the rooster or she's dancing for it. Another       possibility is that she is doing a special ritual for the rooster.

2) A person in feathers is looking at a dead body or inspecting the body in their lair.

3) A girl has died and is being buried in a satanic church looks like, since there is an upside down cross. The roosters are evil creatures with a semblance of human form and watch the burial happen with a woman who is going unclothed, and about to do a ritual for them.

4) The woman ends up being used in a ritual by the rooster in a ritual by the rooster or a sacrifice and we see that she isn't the only one.

5) A woman is lying face down in her blood and it looks like she fell out of bed. There's a rooster in her room so it seems that she was either cursed or it killed her or she was compelled to kill herself. There is the Rooster Man by the door with arms up in victory or grief.

6) There is a man, dancing and it seems to be a start of the spell/curse. The Rooster Man is in the doorway watching.

7) It seems like this rooster person is giving a reading to the ladies by a stick and one of the ladies is upset by what she's hearing.

8) Two ladies are hiding or running away from the Rooster Monster. Maybe because they were experimenting on the girls to become like them, and one of the girls has a goose head by her head and she was maybe going to be a success and so she escaped with her friend or her sister.