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Witches' Sabbath   /wˈɪtʃəz sˈæbəθ/   Listen
Witches' Sabbath

noun
1.
A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy.  Synonym: sabbat.






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"Witches' Sabbath" Quotes from Famous Books



... write some thirty or forty stories varying from thirty to three hundred lines in length. The nature of these stories is easy to imagine: there was the youth who wandered by night into a witches' sabbath, and was disputed for by the witches, young and old. There was the light o' love who went into the desert to tempt the holy man; but he died as he yielded, and the arms stiffening by some miracle to iron-like rigidity, ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore



Words linked to "Witches' Sabbath" :   sabbat, assembly



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