A terrible word for any European Christian of past centuries. What was not attributed to this "gathering of witches", accompanied by "wild revelry, at which Satan himself was present" …
The very word "sabbat" in relation to witches was introduced into fashion by the British - "sabbat", then they supplemented it with another term "esbat", trying to wind it all up in medieval terms … It is very crooked, I must say … But successfully, because we are still in We believe them exactly in the form in which we have been presented with their numerous court reports.
What happened in Europe will remain in Europe, but Slavic traditions reveal these "demonic gatherings" from a completely different perspective.
The term was not taken from the ceiling, of course. We all know perfectly well that its roots go back to the most ordinary "Saturday", which is supposedly the Jewish "Shabbat" - a day of rest, which is why we have a fixed working "Sabbath!", That is, "That's it, end of work!" In the Bible, this "Sabbath" just means the day when God rested after the creation of the world. And roughly speaking, without going into long research, this is just a "holiday", that is, an idle day when you don't have to work and you can relax. Consequently, the "Sabbath" is a time free from work, when people have fun as best they can. A party.
Weekends did not appear in the work schedule right away, but there were always weekend holidays - between heavy arable seasons. And the most idle period, of course, was winter, when nature itself says "That's it, Sabbath!"
In the Russian countryside, they knew very well what "witch sabbaths" were, but they called them in their own way "Saturdays". What were they like?
We open the book by M. M. Zabylina “Russian people. His customs, rituals, traditions, superstitions and poetry , 1880:
Here is such a "coven of witches" with "despicable debauchery" …
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