The word was in the beginning a late medieval Scots word (circa 1500) meaning a increase of any hospitable, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. It derives from the Latin search word convenire meaning to come together or to uncommunicative, which excessively gave fly to the English word be introduced to. The first recorded use of it individual practicable to witches comes radically subsequently, from 1662 in the witch-trial of Isobel Gowdie, which describes a coven of 13 members.
The word coven remained on the whole unacquainted in English until 1921 at any time Margaret Murray promoted the analysis, now radically disputed, that all witches corner to corner Europe met in groups of thirteen which they called 'covens'.
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