An Esbat is the weekly meeting and congegration of a nomadic or founded Pack. Central to the Esbat's are discussions of events that affect the pack as well as the Auctoritas and Ignobilis Ritae in order to celebrate their vampiric existence and allegiance to the Sabbat. An Esbat is usually supervised by the Pack priest and the Ductus.
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| - An Esbat is the weekly meeting and congegration of a nomadic or founded Pack. Central to the Esbat's are discussions of events that affect the pack as well as the Auctoritas and Ignobilis Ritae in order to celebrate their vampiric existence and allegiance to the Sabbat. An Esbat is usually supervised by the Pack priest and the Ductus.
- An Esbat is a meeting of a Pagan or Wiccan sect (sometimes called a witches' coven) occurring during the full moon. These meetings were to discuss religious matters as opposed to celebrations (which sabbats were for) and cast spells as well.
- An esbat (pronounced /ˈɛsbæt/) is a coven meeting other than one of the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic training and all.” Many confuse the esbat with the ritual observance of the full moon. While Doreen Valiente writes that in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, she later finds it necessary to specificy "full moon Esbat," to distinguish it from other esbat occasions.
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| - An esbat (pronounced /ˈɛsbæt/) is a coven meeting other than one of the Sabbats within Wicca and other Wiccan-influenced forms of Neopaganism. Janet and Stewart Farrar describe esbats as an opportunity for a "love feast, healing work, psychic training and all.” Many confuse the esbat with the ritual observance of the full moon. While Doreen Valiente writes that in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, she later finds it necessary to specificy "full moon Esbat," to distinguish it from other esbat occasions. The term esbat in this sense was described by Margaret Murray. Murray, in 1921, claimed that "The Esbat differed from the Sabbat by being primarily for business. ... very often the Esbat was for sheer enjoyment only". Murray used 16th to 17th century French sources on supposed Witches' Sabbaths in the context of the European witch trials to "reconstruct" a Witch Cult in Western Europe. The Old French term esbat (Modern French ébat) meant amusement or diversion, with a connotation of frolicking.
- An Esbat is a meeting of a Pagan or Wiccan sect (sometimes called a witches' coven) occurring during the full moon. These meetings were to discuss religious matters as opposed to celebrations (which sabbats were for) and cast spells as well. Esbat was a term invented in the 20th century, evidently derived from the French word ébat (which was esbat in Old French), which means "frolic" or "romp" (which has sexual connotations). That term dates to the witch trials of the Middle Ages which was a term used to describe the behavior witches engaged in while worshiping the Devil (i.e. having sex with the Devil). Evidently, the Pagans which coined the word were not aware of its history, only that it resembled sabbat (esbat & sabbat both have the -bat suffix) and could be used to refer to another Pagan gathering.
- An Esbat is the weekly meeting and congegration of a nomadic or founded Pack. Central to the Esbat's are discussions of events that affect the pack as well as the Auctoritas and Ignobilis Ritae in order to celebrate their vampiric existence and allegiance to the Sabbat. An Esbat is usually supervised by the Pack priest and the Ductus.
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