Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.

Closing his nose against the fartful air, Al eyed soft drink stands, en passant.

It was over now. Over and done with. Done and over with. I could put it any way I want but I was still scared shitless.

As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot. Referencing events from the second act of Berlioz's Les Troyens.