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.

Is this the witches' Sabbath of our pale Mephistopheles—his night of goblins?

The whistling sound drew nearer, shrill as the howling of a witches' Sabbath.

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.

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.