hell-broth

My faith in Shakspeare is so unbounded, that I verily believe the hell-broth of Macbeth’s witches would, if properly mixed, engender a real armed head and bloody child.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

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 Dane Coolidge

There was a pretty hell-broth brewing in the little town.

From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

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 Washington Irving

The Allies were not prepared to intervene in force, and they could not leave Russia to stew in her own hell-broth.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves