saboe

Updated: May 3, 2025

In the Ride to Hell, which concludes Berlioz's "Damnation de Faust," the infernal horsemen are greeted with shouts in a language which the mystical Swedenborg says is the speech of the lower regions. Boito also uses an infernal vocabulary. His witches screech "Saboe har Sabbah!" on the authority of Le Loyer's "Les Spectres."

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music