Coven number of persons involved may vary. Although some consider thirteen to be ideal (probably in deference to Murray's theories), any group of at least three can be a coven. A group of two is usually called a "working couple" (regardless of the sexes). Within the community, many believe that a coven larger than thirteen is unwieldy, citing unwieldy group dynamics and an unfair burden on the leadership. When a coven has grown too large to be manageable, it may split, or "hive". In Wicca, this may also occur when a newly made High Priest or High Priestess, also called 3rd
Coven depicting witches and to the three "weird sisters" in Shakespeare's "Macbeth" (1606). Orgiastic meetings of witches are depicted in the Robert Burns poem "Tam o' Shanter" (1791) and in the Goethe play "Faust" (1832). Films featuring covens include "Rosemary's Baby" (1968), "Suspiria" (1977) and its 2018 remake, "The Witches of Eastwick" (1987), "Four Rooms" (1995), "The Craft" (1996), "Coven" (1997), "Underworld" (2003), "" (2006), "The Covenant" (2006), "Paranormal Activity 3" (2011), and "The Witch" (2015). In television, covens have been portrayed in the U.S. in supernatural dramas such as "Charmed", "Witches of East End", "The Vampire Diaries", "The Originals", "The