hell-broth

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They are partly heathen, partly Christian; partly classical, partly Teutonic—a strange and unwholesome compound, as ‘thick and slab’ as the hell-broth mixed by the hags on ‘the blasted heath’!

From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)

Wiley did not guess it–he knew it–Virginia Huff was the witch who had mixed the hell-broth that had raised up all this treachery against him.

From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane

So I looked out for some quiet retired place, where I might be out of reach of my friends, and have leisure to cook up some delectable dish of poetical "hell-broth."

From Tales of a Traveller by Irving, Washington

Seated there upon the ground, Shiminya continued to shake his bowl of hell-broth.

From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Mitford, Bertram

Its springs are far between, and, without a single exception, mere receptacles of a salt, potash, and sulphur hell-broth, which no man would drink, save in extremis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various