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Witchcraft's answer to the book club, minus the wine, plus the cauldron.

means A coven is a gathering or community of witches, traditionally meeting to practice rituals together.

from From Latin convenire, to assemblethe same root that gives us convene and convent, so witches and nuns share a grammatical bloodline.

Magic numberFolklore favors thirteen members, though most modern covens ignore it.
Shakespeare boostMacbeth's three witches made covens pop-culture famous by 1606.
Word revivalRare for centuries until 1920s anthropologists resurrected it.
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