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An illustration of Witches' Sabbath by Martin van Maële, from the 1911 edition of the book La Sorcière, by Jules Michelet. A Witches' Sabbath is a purported gathering of those believed to practice witchcraft and other rituals. The phrase became especially popular in the 20th century.
Preparation for the Witches' Sabbath by David Teniers the Younger. Note on the left an older witch reading from a grimoire while anointing the buttocks of a young witch about to fly to the sabbath upon an inverted besom with a candle upon its twigs A Witches' Sabbath by Frans Francken the Younger. Note on extreme right pots of magic ointment ...
Articles related to the Witches' Sabbath and its depictions. It is a purported gathering of those believed to practice witchcraft and other rituals . The phrase became especially popular in the 20th century.
The osculum infame illustrated in Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium maleficarum of 1608 Sixteenth-century Swiss depiction of the Witches' Sabbath from the chronicles of Johann Jakob Wick. Note witch performing the osculum infame, not upon Satan himself (enthroned above), but upon one of his attendant demons who has lowered his trunk hose for ...
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath is a study of visionary traditions in Early Modern Europe written by the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg.First published by Giulio Einaudi in 1989 under the Italian title Storia notturna: Una decifrazione del Sabba, it was later translated into English by Raymond Rosenthal and published by Hutchinson Radius in 1990.
Mr. & Mrs. Witch is a similar premise: Savannah is a powerful witch, who is unknowingly marrying a witch hunter Griffin. At their wedding, all hell breaks lose—and they're tasked with killing ...
Julio Caro Baroja in his book The World of the Witches explains that Basque witchcraft is known due to this witch-hunt, being one of the most infamous between the European witch-hunts. It was possibly as a result of these major trials that the term akelarre became synonymous with the word "witch's sabbath" and spread into common parlance in ...
Magic appears to have entered the digital age as this Chicago Library seeks help from witches to transcribe a 400-year-old spellbook. ... vilifies witchcraft and defends the executions of ...