Note 2 — Chapter IV · The Sabbat

Miss Murray, misled no doubt by the multiplicity of material, postulates two separate and distinct kinds of assemblies: The Sabbat, the General Meeting of all members of the religion; the Esbat “only for the special and limited number who carried out the rites and practices of the cult, and [which] was not for the general public.” The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, p. 97. Görres had already pointed out that the smaller meetings were often known as Esbats. The idea of a “general public” at a witches’ meeting is singular.