Editing Esbat (section)

==Etymology==
The term ''esbat'' is derived from [[Old French]] ''s'esbattre'' (Modern French ''ébat''), meaning ''to frolic and amuse oneself'', ''diversion''.<ref name=dictionary.com>{{cite web|title=Esbat|url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/esbat|publisher=Dictionary.com. Random House, Inc.|access-date=25 October 2012}}</ref><ref name=brill>{{cite book|title=Handbook of Contemporary Paganism|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookcontempo00pizz|url-access=limited|year=2009|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|location=[[Leiden]], [[Netherlands]]|isbn=978-90-04-16373-7|author=Murphy Pizza|author2=James R. Lewis|page=[https://archive.org/details/handbookcontempo00pizz/page/n74 64]|chapter=The Modern Magical Revival: Nevill Drury}}</ref> It was a borrowing by 20th century anthropologist [[Margaret Murray]]'s use of [[European witch trials|French witch trial]] sources on supposed [[Witches' Sabbath]]s in her attempts to "reconstruct" a ''Witch Cult in Western Europe''.