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Значения термина witches' sabbath на английском

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

Использование термина witches' sabbath на английском
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Our sanity was saved by the sight of a waiter, busy and aloof in the witches' sabbath, mopping a table.
The new yorker
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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."
The Necessity of Atheism
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Now he was praying because the Witches' Sabbath was drawing near.
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
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One of the women clapped her hands, and the witches' sabbath was over.
Acts of faith
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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...
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I'm sure that he goes to the witches' sabbath.
Notre-Dame de Paris
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During this period he had been in the form of a wolf to the witches' sabbath.
The Book of Were-Wolves
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The mysteries of the witches' Sabbath, so wonderfully painted in the sixteenth century, are no mysteries for us.
Poor Relations
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Among other, there are representations of the Witches' Sabbath, the Wild Huntsman, and a Werewolf attacking a Man.
The Book of Were-Wolves
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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
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"They think they're at the witches' Sabbath, but I don't see their broomsticks."
Cinq Mars — Volume 1
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"I think I'm interrupting a witches' Sabbath," she said brightly.
Witch Week
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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
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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
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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
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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