A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy.
1 You were at the witches' Sabbath; you are a witch, and have bewitched my daughter.
2 The mysteries of the witches' Sabbath, so wonderfully painted in the sixteenth century, are no mysteries for us.
3 They were accused of having sold their souls to the devil, and of celebrating all the infernal mysteries of the witches' Sabbath.
4 Now he was praying because the Witches' Sabbath was drawing near.
5 One of the women clapped her hands, and the witches' sabbath was over.
6 I'm sure that he goes to the witches' sabbath.
7 During this period he had been in the form of a wolf to the witches' sabbath.
8 Among other, there are representations of the Witches' Sabbath, the Wild Huntsman, and a Werewolf attacking a Man.
9 In three days it'll be the witches' sabbath, and then they'll fly and dance along the Hohenfurch Road, and-
10 Our sanity was saved by the sight of a waiter, busy and aloof in the witches' sabbath, mopping a table.
11 "They think they're at the witches' Sabbath, but I don't see their broomsticks."
12 "I think I'm interrupting a witches' Sabbath," she said brightly.
13 What dangers thou canst make us scorn! it goes, and as Tam nears the kirk, he happens upon a witches' Sabbath.
14 In short, on examining the orgy more closely, and with more coolness, he fell from the witches' sabbath to the dram-shop.
15 Full of bitterness, he wandered about, till midnight found him in the fish-market, where the Witches' Sabbath was about to take place.
16 Was his witches' Sabbath of a campaign all a gigantic act, a ritual wallow in mud before the cleansing douche of the ballot?
Other examples for "witches' Sabbath"
Grammar, pronunciation and more