witches' cauldron

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Instead, the human figures, especially in Welles and Kurosawa, melt into the hell brew of the atmosphere like ingredients in the witches’ cauldron.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

North of Lyon, on the last day of the voyage, Dr. Eckener described the squalls as "a regular witches' cauldron."

From Time Magazine Archive

And there was a witches’ cauldron full of golden soup.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

We should want a cart with a bonfire in it and a sort of witches' cauldron on top, and all kinds of sticky stuff; so we gave up that scheme.

From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Hay, Ian

It can profit the world nothing to restir the witches' cauldron.

From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax