Witches' Sabbath
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Sep 6, 2026
Carly RoseHOST
Proponents argued that Christian authorities later interpreted this deity through a Christian framework, identifying him instead with the devil.
Carly RoseHOST
The gatherings described in witch trial accounts as the Witch's Sabbath were similarly interpreted as distorted or demonised descriptions of genuine nocturnal pagan rites.
Carly RoseHOST
Versions of the idea first emerged in the early 19th century through the work of German scholars Karl Ernst Jock and Franz Joseph Moem.
Carly RoseHOST
It was later taken up by writers including the French historian Jules Michelet, American suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage and folklorist Charles Godfrey Leyland.
Carly RoseHOST
However, the rejection of the witch cult hypothesis does not necessarily mean that all traces of pre-Christian belief had disappeared from European culture.
Carly RoseHOST
Folk traditions, magical practices, beliefs surrounding spirits and the dead, seasonal customs and fragments of older mythology continued to exist alongside Christianity for centuries.
Carly RoseHOST
Historians such as Carlo Ginsberg have explored whether elements of these older traditions may have contributed to some of the imagery that later became associated with the Witch's Sabbath.
Carly RoseHOST
His research into traditions such as the Ben and Dante of Northern Italy suggested that certain visionary and folkloric practices could preserve very old cultural motifs.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
Probably the darkest feature in the whole matter was that many regarded themselves as actually guilty.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The horrors of the time and the universal belief in this direful superstition produced hallucinations that convinced many women, young as well as old, that they really had dealings with the evil one and had attended the witches' Sabbath.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
Even the Swedes, who came to Germany untainted by this superstition, became infected by the delusion and returned to kindle the fires of torture in their own land.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
It was only natural that the protracted civil war should destroy the last relics of national feeling still lingering in the hearts of the German people.
P. J. MorganNARRATOR
They are associated in my mind with none but disagreeable objects and remembrances.
P. J. MorganNARRATOR
Old maids, witchcraft, dreadful Sabbaths, with old women flying up the chimney upon broomsticks to drink hell broth with the evil one.
P. J. MorganNARRATOR
Charms, incantations, sorceries, sucking children's breaths, stopping out late on the tiles, caterwauling and molrowing in the night season, prowling about the streets at unseasonable hours, and a variety of other things too numerous and too unpleasant to mention." Upon the other hand, Puss has had her defenders, and Miss Isabel Hill writes thus, "Poor Pinky, I can scarce dare a word in praise of one belonging to thy slandered sisterhood.
P. J. MorganNARRATOR
Yet a few good examples embolden me to assert that I have rarely known any harm of cats who were given a fair chance, though I own I have seldom met with any that have enjoyed that advantage.
River KaneHOST
And, you know, like you said, it doesn't have to just be an ancestor or a deity.
River KaneHOST
You can, the elemental spirits, you know, especially like the Sabbaths during the year, there are Sabbaths that are associated with fire.
River KaneHOST
There are Sabbaths that are associated with air.
River KaneHOST
And so during that Sabbath, if you want to have your coven or group do something with the alcohol, I love your idea of passing it a little bit from each cup to the next so that the last cup is full of everyone from the coven.
River KaneHOST
I love that.
Lindsay WhislerHOST
We've talked about Beltane.
Lindsay WhislerHOST
But the pagan wheel of the year includes eight holidays or Sabbaths, which is the actual name for those.
Lindsay WhislerHOST
Most of them are actually very ancient and they're inspired by Celtic pagan culture.
Lindsay WhislerHOST
So that's like Beltana, Samhain, Yule are some of the oldest, oldest.
Nasty RonnieGUEST
And then they delivered.
Nasty RonnieGUEST
And John Tardy's vocals on Witch's Sabbath is just wicked.
Nasty RonnieGUEST
And the drums of Donald Tardy, I mean... that's what it's about and and because people say that is because bands like that mention us or chuck in the days when they used to wear the nasty savage church and rick and you know cam and and death and you know and even uh morbid angel or deicide you know it's it's those guys who don't forget where they came from maybe and i'm not trying to be a wise guy with that but It's like us, for Savatage was a big inspiration on us, even a band Argus, there was a band Vengeance, and that was it for us.
Nasty RonnieGUEST
But it's always good when other bands remind other bands or other fans about you know, a little bit of history and it means a lot.
SophieUNKNOWN
I was gonna say I feel like it it's like at least you can't accidentally turn into one you have to put in the work
Aidan MattisHOST
yeah but the real version where you're thinking it's this is a person who is just so hateful that they were willing to kill their own sibling take their body back to the skinwalker which is Sabbath cave powder up their flesh and use it to kill somebody they dislike And on top of that, it's like, you know, what else do they do at the Witch's Sabbath? Oh, well, they all strip naked, do drugs, commit acts of incest, eat human bodies.
Aidan MattisHOST
There's necrophilia sometimes.
SophieUNKNOWN
I could have gotten behind the getting naked and getting high part, but everything else after that.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Witch hunter Fassolt always breaks them the same way.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He begins with interrogation about Sabbaths, the Devil's Pact, who else was there? If the words don't come, he lays out thumb screws, leg screws, and his favorite, the Strapada.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Naming neighbors or family members might buy hours of relief, but Fesselt demands denunciations by the hundreds.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Soon, the tortured turn from familiar names to the town's richest and most powerful.
ChadHOST
Okay, so we're at two of three Doom.
ChadHOST
Witch's Sabbath, choose one of the following actions, Investigate, Fight, Evade, or Parley, and put Witch's Sabbath into play next to the agenda deck.
ChadHOST
I cannot choose an action that has already been chosen.
ChadHOST
I'm gonna choose Parley.
ChadHOST
Two of three doom.
ChadHOST
We are in the witching hour.
ChadHOST
Another witch's sabbath.
ChadHOST
Evade.
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