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The town has given rise to numerous legends about witches and sabbaths, some of which were recreated by the romantic writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. It is the only Spanish town officially cursed and excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The excommunication has never been revoked. [3] [4] Trasmoz is a town steeped in witchcraft.
Witches' Sabbath (1798), by Francisco Goya. Akelarre is a Basque term meaning Witches' Sabbath (a gathering of those practicing witchcraft). Akerra means male goat in the Basque language. Witches' sabbaths were envisioned as presided over by a goat. The word has been loaned to Castilian Spanish (which uses the spelling Aquelarre).
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.
Witches' Sabbath at the Blocksberg, Johannes Praetorius, Leipzig, 1668 Detail of the stone labyrinth on the Swedish islet of Blå Jungfrun. Blockula (Blåkulla in modern Swedish, translated to "Blue Hill") was a legendary island where the Devil held his Earthly court during a witches' Sabbath. It was described as containing a massive meadow ...
It ridiculed the "sabbath" by the members of the Belarusian Union of Soviet Writers, who quarreled during the allocation of dachas for them. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In Monday Begins on Saturday , a 1965 science fantasy novel by Soviet writers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky , the witch Naina Kyivna, the landlady of the protagonist regularly flies to Lysaya ...
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The legend about witches' sabbaths is likely related to the old cult. On the site of the pagan temple the Benedictine monastery of Holy Cross ( Święty Krzyż ) was founded (according to a legend, in 1006, by king of Poland , Bolesław I the Brave , but most sources give the 11th century).
The Witches' Cottage, where the Bricket Wood coven celebrated their sabbats (2006) Two neopagan streams in Britain popularised these seasonal festival calendars in the twentieth century: the Bricket Wood coven , a Wiccan group founded by Gerald Gardner , and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids , a neo-Druidic group founded by Ross Nichols .