A woman ties the devil to a pillow. A pillar-biter, or a hypocrite, here shown as a man with a rosary on his arm. The cap stone OR the hat on top of the pillar (“keeping something under one’s hat”). She carries water in one hand and burning coals in the other hand.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Netherlandish Proverbs or The Blue Cloak, Detail, (panel; 117 x 163 cm [46 X 64 1/8 in.]), Staatliche Museen, Berlin Signed and dated bottom right: BRVEGEL 1559