A midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy.
1 Our sanity was saved by the sight of a waiter, busy and aloof in the witches' sabbath, mopping a table.
2 She was bound to be tortured until she had given the names or described the persons of those she had seen at the " witches' sabbath."
3 Now he was praying because the Witches' Sabbath was drawing near.
4 One of the women clapped her hands, and the witches' sabbath was over.
5 You were at the witches' Sabbath; you are a witch, and have bewitched my daughter.
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 The mysteries of the witches' Sabbath, so wonderfully painted in the sixteenth century, are no mysteries for us.
9 Among other, there are representations of the Witches' Sabbath, the Wild Huntsman, and a Werewolf attacking a Man.
10 In three days it'll be the witches' sabbath, and then they'll fly and dance along the Hohenfurch Road, and-
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 They were accused of having sold their souls to the devil, and of celebrating all the infernal mysteries of the witches' Sabbath.
16 Full of bitterness, he wandered about, till midnight found him in the fish-market, where the Witches' Sabbath was about to take place.
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