Rest and rude food the lawless Nomads yield; The dews rise ghost-like from the whitening field, And ghost-like on the wanderer glides the sleep Through which the phantom Dreams their witching sabbat keep!
"The Poetical Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. M.P."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
It was about that time that the belief in the "sabbat" or nocturnal assembly of the witches made its appearance.
"A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718"
Wallace Notestein
3, sabbat 1. To what did such diversity of opinion relate, if not to the canonical character of the books?
"The Canon of the Bible"
Samuel Davidson