[2] 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. [3] On a voulu trouver l’etymologie du sabbat, réunion des sorciers, dans les _sabazies_; mais la forme ne le permet pas; d’ailleurs comment, au moyen âge aurait on connu les sabazies? Saint-Croix, _Recherches sur les mystères du paganisme_; Maury, _Histoire des religions de la Grèce antique_. [4] _Metamorphoseon_, VIII. 25. [5] Miss Murray thinks that Sabbat “is possibly a derivative of _s’esbattre_, ‘to frolic,’” and adds “a very suitable description of the joyous gaiety of the meetings”!! [6] Miss Murray mistakenly says (p. 109) that May Eve (30 April) is called Roodmas or Rood Day. Roodmas or Rood Day is 3 May, the Feast of the Invention of Holy Cross. An early English calendar (702-706) even gives 7 May as Roodmas. The Invention of Holy Cross is found in the Lectionary of Silos and the Bobbio Missal. The date was not slightly altered. The Invention of Holy Cross is among the very early festivals. [7] Especially in the North and North-East. Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Baden, knew little of this particular date. [8] In the _Rituale_ we have “Benedictio Rogi, quæ fit a Clero extra Ecclesiam in Uigilia Natiuitatis S. Joannis Baptistæ.” (Blessing of a pyre, which the Clergy may give on the Vigil of the Nativity of S. John Baptist, but outside the Church.) This form is especially approved for the Diocese of Tarbes. [9] _Relacion de las personas que salieron al auto de la fé que los inquisidores apostólicos del reino de Navarra y su distrito, celebraron en la ciudad De Logroño, en 7 y 8 del mes de noviembre de 1610 años_, 1611. [10] _Discours des Sorciers_, XXII. 12. Tertullian’s _Diabolus simia Dei_. [11] _Idem_, XX. 2. [12] _Tableau_, p. 65. [13] Les lieux des assemblées des Sorciers sont notables et signalez de quelques arbres, ou croix. _Fleau_, p. 181. [14] Anthony Horneck; Appendix to Glanvill’s _Sadducismus Triumphatus_. London, 1681.