Show witches had regular periods for meeting in ill the middle ages covent or convent was used to describe a religious assembly hence covent garden from the garden of a convent that once stood on the site bite of the famous london fruit and flower m market dy by degrees coven came to be used to describe any gathering of twelve people eo with a leader in the case of witches it come came to stand for a company of twelve with their chief impersonating or representing the devil in england every district seems to have had lt it coven and local deec meetings were usually held once a week but tile tho sabbath of Wit witches cheo held four times n year and usually on all a thursday for some strange reason was the more important of the gath |