The caricature shows a fat monk, used as bagpipe by the devil. The monk-bagpipe is not martin luther (as asserted in some popular literature), but a representative of contemporaneous monasticism which is denunciated to be inspired by the devil. The german text says:
once i (the devil) piped here and there
with such pipes, which where very numerous. I piped many fairy tales, dreams and fantasies. Now it's over and the pipes destroyed (by the lutheran reformation)
which makes me sad and angry. But i hope this won't last long
because in the world there is enough haughtiness,
sin, fraud and ruse. Date: 1535.
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