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In the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy
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n. witches' Sabbath
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Sabbat \Sab"bat\, n. [See Sabbath .] In medi[ae]val demonology, the nocturnal assembly in which demons and sorcerers were thought to celebrate their orgies.
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Sabbat is hard rock opera written by Craig R. Pedersen and the rock band Uther Pendragon . Started in 1969 with a song titled "Devils Due", it was finished in 2006. The original concept was for staging with Stonehenge set, but final product is based on ...
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n. a midnight meeting of witches to practice witchcraft and sorcery; in the Middle Ages it was supposed to be a demonic orgy [syn: witches' Sabbath ]
Usage examples of sabbat.
Change when it was her refuge from the world, a well of deep peace broken only when her coven arrived for the Sabbats and Esbats or by a rare guest.
France vont au sabbat sans balai, ni graisse, ni monture, seulement avec quelques paroles magiques.
Au milieu de ce sabbat, on le distinguait encore au haut de son pilier, comme un mousse dans le hunier.
Sabbat, brother of the Serpent, represents the Evil Force or Devil, 102-l.
High Sabbats, and Nathans is going to wipe out all the followers of neo-Satanism.
Writings as to wizards, Sabbats and Devil worship cloud human philosophy.
It is about these mathematicians, Alfred Ban Humboldt and Gennao Sabbat, that the dispute centers.
He says that if Sabbat will admit theft of the idea and allow Humboldt to proceed with transmission of the paper—or at least its delivery at the conference, he will not press charges.
He says that if Sabbat will admit theft of the idea and allow Humboldt to proceed with transmission of the paper--or at least its delivery at the conference, he will not press charges.
Between each of these solar festivals, which are known to witches as the Lesser Sabbats, is one of the four great Fire festivals that are major rites in the Wiccan and neo-pagan calendar, as they were to the Celts.
You must have had everything but a rain dance and a sabbat going on around you!
De Lancre, Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais agnes et demons, Paris, 1912, has: pour ne confessor iamais le secret de l’escole, on faict au sabbat une paste de millet noir, auec de la poudre du foyer de quelque enfant non baptise qu’on faict secher, puis meslant cette poudre avec ladicte paste, elle a cette vertu de tacitrunite.
Ere the litter of falling glass had reached the tavern floor, a swart and monstrous form flew into the room, with a beating of heavy vans that caused the tapers to flare troublously, and the shadows to dance like a sabbat of misshapen devils.
Sabbat, he had succumbed to temptation and had acted unethically, he would suffer a certain eclipse of reputation, but his great age and his centuries of accomplishments would stand against that and would win out.