witch-scene

Updated: June 21, 2025

I was in fairyland between the dark wall and the wild throng of illumined waters, but suffered sudden disenchantment; for, like the witch-scene in Alloway Kirk, "in an instant all was dark."

John Muir - The Yosemite

It reminded me of the witch-scene in Macbeth, or pictures of brigands or Bohemian gypsies at rendezvous, not less than five hundred men, in motley, ragged costumes, with long hair, and lean, wild, haggard faces, were gathered in groups or in pairs, around some fagot fires.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War