Sabbat

Here are entered works on the neopagan religious festivals that commemorate the phases of the changing seasons. Works on covens' ritual observance of the full moon, and sometimes also the dark moon and/or first and last quarters, are entered under [Esbat (Neopagan custom).]

found: Work cat.: Ginzburg, C. Ecstasies, 1991(sabbat; witches' sabbath; Sabbath)

found: Buckland, Raymond. The witch book, [2002]:page 395 (Sabbat ... applied to the main festivals of Witchcraft. There are eight ... spread equidistant throughout the year .... [marking] the agricultural and solar divisions of the year ... eventually, the sun festivals were added to agricultural ones: the summer and winter solstices and the spring and autumn equinoxes, known as Minor or Lesser Sabbats); page 509 (Wheel of the Year is the term used in Wicca for the changing season, the spokes of the wheel being the Greater and Lesser Sabbats: Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Spring [Equinox, or Ostara], Beltane, Summer [Solstice, or Litha], Lughnasadh, [or Lammas], Autumn [Equinox, or Mabon])

found: Merriam-Webster online, Dec. 4, 2018:Sabbat (def. 2: any of eight new-pagan religious festivals commemorating phases of the changing seasons)

Here are entered works on the neopagan religious festivals that commemorate the phases of the changing seasons. Works on covens' ritual observance of the full moon, and sometimes also the dark moon and/or first and last quarters, are entered under [Esbat (Neopagan custom).]