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

It gathered from nowhere, smoke-like and yet not smoke; a haze, a murk, a mass of writhing heat like the fumes from a witches’ cauldron.

From Wunpost by Coolidge, Dane

Wonderful logic of formulas, powerful as a witches' cauldron for mischief as long as it is believed in.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony