Crossword-Solution: ESBAT 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

THE ASSEMBLIES There were two kinds of assemblies; the one, known as the Sabbath, was the General Meeting of all the members of the religion; the other, to which I give—on the authority of Estebène de Cambrue—the name of Esbat, was only for the special and limited number who carried out the rites and practices of the cult, and was not for the general public.

But the Great Assemblies were always held on the four original days, and it is this fact which makes it possible to distinguish with certainty between the Sabbath and the Esbat whenever dates are mentioned.

The business carried on at the Esbat was usually the practice of magic for the benefit of a client or for the harming of an enemy.

White's rie in the beginning of harvest, 1661, and that she had broad soales and trampit down more nor any of the rest'.[433] The Devil of Mohra in Sweden cared only to impress his followers; when the wall which they were building fell down 'some of the Witches are commonly hurt, which makes him laugh, but presently he cures them again'.[434] _Site._—In some places the Esbat was held at a fixed site, in others the site varied from week to week.

Though there was no fixed day for the Esbat, it seems probable that one day in the week was observed in each locality.