witches' Sabbath
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of witches' Sabbath
First recorded in 1670–80
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If, therefore, the parents do not wish the bairns to retain the entr�e of the witches' Sabbath—held always at Benevento—it behoves them to take prompt action.
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Is this the witches' Sabbath of our pale Mephistopheles—his night of goblins?
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The whistling sound drew nearer, shrill as the howling of a witches' Sabbath.
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Saturday is likewise esteemed an inauspicious day, which points to its association with the witches' Sabbath, once the subject of numerous superstitious beliefs throughout the southern provinces of Italy.
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The idea arose of a witches' Sabbath, when women were enabled by evil means to fly away, and adore in secret the gods from whom the rest of the world had turned.
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