witches' cauldron

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

“It was a true witches’ cauldron,” one foreign official who spent years in Angola told me.

Beneath my Vibram soles the wall fell away for three thousand feet to the dirty, avalanche-scarred cirque of the Witches Cauldron Glacier.

I worried, with ample reason, that I might step blindly off the top of a serac and end up at the bottom of the Witches Cauldron, a vertical half mile below.

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