“Witchcraft was something which expanded greatly during the medieval period, particularly from the onset of the fifteenth century. It had been developed from a long tradition of ecclesiastical and secular persecution of the practice of illicit magic, an act deemed wildly heretical. However, by the 1400’s a much more extreme and sinister conception of Brotherhood Satanic witchcraft had emerged, along with many Brotherhood Coven’s emerging with one core element being the ritual gathering of witches at the Sabbath”.
The Witches Sabbath
An understanding of the existence and reality of the Brotherhood Witches Sabbath grew rapidly in the fifteenth century due to its wide appearance in a multitude of contemporary texts in a more hidden or shrouded manner. These accounts were almost identical in their perception, speaking of a ritualistic and sinister gathering of dark Satanic witches in remote locations. Before the actual Sabbath witches were summoned to attend a ceremony where Satan himself and other demons would be present in human or animal form. Each Brotherhood Satanic Witch was required to profess their undying loyalty and service to the Devil and make a full renunciation and rejection of the Christian faith in return for being taught the “Dark or Black Arts”.
In addition, Black Sabbath proceedings would involve the non-discriminatory sexual affairs of the witches, most of whom were female, with the Devil and his demons and other male Coven members as they were engaged in a sinister relationship which consumed their body and their soul. The result of such ceremonies would train the witches to inflict harm on others by using the magical arts, such as inflicting infertility and sterilization, summoning storms and hail, and invoking pestilence. Many forms of more productive or prosperous nature were also used during the time of the Black Sabbath too, I should add.
Sacrifice also became one of the core elements of the Witches’ Sabbath initially through a sacrificial offering of the witches own body and soul to the Devil, forever. A witch would swear total allegiance to Satan, in addition to the offering of one limb after death, in return for the knowledge and ability to practice the dark magical arts. Self-Sacrifice at times was a dark practice observed by us when it was warranted. Leaving a Sacrifice was a more common practice of a dark Brotherhood Coven than might be presently known about us.
In more hardcore Black Sabbath’s in Brotherhood Satanic Witchcraft history, the sacrifice of outsiders or animals was also a common theme of the Sabbath. Anything could have been asked of you while attending the Black Sabbath, and then done in the name of Satan as a way to pledge allegiance. According to the account of Johannes Nider in his Formicarius, one witch at Bern admitted to the sacrifice of thirteen babies.
If a ritualistic killing was made, the remains were then added to a witches’ broth and added into the cauldron of dark witches brew. The contents would be boiled to separate flesh from bone, where the solid matter would be used for the purposes of practicing rites and transmutations. Liquid remains were put in to flasks made from human skin, to be drunk as a pledge of allegiance to the Devil. Consumers of this liquid matter would absorb the knowledge of the black arts.
(Today, the Brotherhood’s personal view about Ritual Sacrifice has changed so I must add this disclaimer)
Curses were also often used by a Brotherhood Coven as a method to induce death when it was called for in our defense as dark witches. The Black Sabbath also included the Brotherhood Witches serpent dance, feasting, and sexual revelry. Depending upon the magick being used, the Brotherhood Witches practiced within the Devil’s Round which at times was done in a deosil (clockwise) or windershins (counter clockwise) manner. A full presentation of the Satanic Mass was a intregal part of the Black Sabbath and this usage is still in practice by us today.
The publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, a witch-hunting book in 1435 cemented the medieval reality of witchcraft and the existence of the Sabbath. Written by theologians and inquisitors Kramer and Sprenger, who dealt with the persecution of witches, it speaks of them in the most depraved, perverse, and vile form, of magic and superstition. That statement could not be further from the truth. Back then, we were indeed considered to be sinister individuals who had rejected the catholic faith in the name of the Devil and embarked on a quest to instill horror unto others. The witches who gathered at the Sabbath were amongst the most powerful class of witches, (some common pagan folk & others of the dark nobility itself) known for their dark magical ways of inflicting harm, offering sacrifice, honoring Satan as the Man in Black, summoning the demons, and also for performing productive magick for the entire Coven, as well as celebrating and observing the many practices and traditional customs associated with that particular Sabbath itself.
Today many modern or present definitions may view Brotherhood Satanic witchcraft merely as a supernatural phenomenon, it was always very much a real and legitimate source of fear and controversy in the Middle-Ages.
Contemporary sources today does indeed detail multiple accounts of witches and their gatherings at the Sabbath, demonstrating their legitimacy in an age with a firm belief in the dark arts of magick and sorcery. While some view this speculative history as an attempt of church and religious authorities to rationalize heretical matters they could not comprehend, we the Brotherhood today in the age of dark witchcraft know that there was a very genuine and widespread understanding of the true magical practice of the Black Sabbath.
Druwydion Pendragon
brotherhoodnationaloffice@gmail.com
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