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Sabbat

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Sabbat: Sabbat is a term for the eight seasonal festivals of the Wiccan year.
The sabbats comprise what Witches/Wiccans call the Wheel of the Year. This wheel is based largely upon the ancient solar rites of pre-Christian European tradition. Because the Old Religion was a fertility cult, in ancient times the traditional rituals of Wicca were designed to incorporate the waxing and waning periods of Nature. These periods are marked by each solstice and equinox and the cross-quarters that fall between each one.
source: Encyclopedia of Wicca & Witchcraft, Raven Grimassi (Llewellyn Publications)

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ARTICLES

3 ARTICLES ON SABBAT


1. The Sabbats:
relevance: 97%

2. Coven:
relevance: 2%

3. The Esbats: An explanation of the Esbats, and their relationship to the 13 annual lunations of the moon.
relevance: 2%