Coven Coven A coven usually refers to a group or gathering of witches. The word "coven" remained largely unused in English until 1921 when Margaret Murray promoted the idea, now discredited, that all witches across Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called "covens". In Wicca and other similar forms of modern neopagan witchcraft, such as Stregheria and Feri, a coven is a gathering or community of witches, much like a in Christian parlance. It is composed of a group of believers who gather together for ceremonies of worship such as Drawing Down the Moon, or celebrating the Sabbats. The
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