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Meanings of witches' Sabbath in English

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

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        Examples for "sabbat"
        1
        How jubilant Kilkenny folk always are at a warm-weather sabbat, she mused.
        Feminist dot com
        2
        It was also well known that at times six thousand people were present at one sabbat.
        Witchcraft Today
        3
        The wilder and less religious of the lords would ride great distances to attend a sabbat.
        Witchcraft Today
        4
        This would account for the stories of masked people who would come riding to attend the sabbat.
        Witchcraft Today
        5
        Do they go to the sabbat?
        Witchcraft Today
        Usage of witches' Sabbath in English
        1
        You were at the witches' Sabbath; you are a witch, and have bewitched my daughter.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
        2
        The mysteries of the witches' Sabbath, so wonderfully painted in the sixteenth century, are no mysteries for us.
        Poor Relations
        3
        They were accused of having sold their souls to the devil, and of celebrating all the infernal mysteries of the witches' Sabbath.
        Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
        4
        Now he was praying because the Witches' Sabbath was drawing near.
        The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
        5
        One of the women clapped her hands, and the witches' sabbath was over.
        Acts of faith
        6
        I'm sure that he goes to the witches' sabbath.
        Notre-Dame de Paris
        7
        During this period he had been in the form of a wolf to the witches' sabbath.
        The Book of Were-Wolves
        8
        Among other, there are representations of the Witches' Sabbath, the Wild Huntsman, and a Werewolf attacking a Man.
        The Book of Were-Wolves
        9
        In three days it'll be the witches' sabbath, and then they'll fly and dance along the Hohenfurch Road, and-
        The hangman's daughter
        10
        Our sanity was saved by the sight of a waiter, busy and aloof in the witches' sabbath, mopping a table.
        The new yorker
        11
        "They think they're at the witches' Sabbath, but I don't see their broomsticks."
        Cinq Mars — Volume 1
        12
        "I think I'm interrupting a witches' Sabbath," she said brightly.
        Witch Week
        13
        What dangers thou canst make us scorn! it goes, and as Tam nears the kirk, he happens upon a witches' Sabbath.
        Anonyponymous: the forgotten people behind everyday words
        14
        In short, on examining the orgy more closely, and with more coolness, he fell from the witches' sabbath to the dram-shop.
        Notre-Dame de Paris
        15
        Full of bitterness, he wandered about, till midnight found him in the fish-market, where the Witches' Sabbath was about to take place.
        Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine
        16
        Was his witches' Sabbath of a campaign all a gigantic act, a ritual wallow in mud before the cleansing douche of the ballot?
        The Irish Times