A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy.
1How jubilant Kilkenny folk always are at a warm-weather sabbat, she mused.
2It was also well known that at times six thousand people were present at one sabbat.
3The wilder and less religious of the lords would ride great distances to attend a sabbat.
4This would account for the stories of masked people who would come riding to attend the sabbat.
5Do they go to the sabbat?
6Prickeare placidly ignored these agitations, while his mistress tried forcing her mind back toward the sabbat and more agreeable thoughts.
7A year later I began, with several other women, to have sabbats.
8We observe the eight sabbats of the year and the full-moon esbats.
9But the bloody and investuous side of the old sabbats is wanting.
10Early Hebrew sun god and maybe ultimately the origin of the term Sabbat.
11He was tortured until he confessed that he had attended a witches' Sabbat.
12What in the name of the Sabbat does she want with La Corriveau?
13The Old God is honored at midwinter, the Sabbat of Yule.
14A solar Sabbat, Mabon is sacred to the Father God.
15A solar Sabbat, Midsummer is sacred to the sun god, as lord of life.
16Japan's Gish and Sabbat often pose among bamboo stalks, wielding samurai swords and Asian-motif symbology.