witches' Sabbath English

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witches' Sabbath

— noun (= sabbat) 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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It was a general belief that the witch was naked when, at night, during the so-called Witch Sabbath, she danced with the devils.

The French doctors Bourneville and Teinturier gave me the following pictures of the Witch Sabbath a secret satanic rite to which thousands of women asserted their participation.

These scenes are often found on famous Witch Sabbath pictures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.