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

They were his men who had gone into that witches' cauldron; with them daily he lived and daily died.

From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Can anyone say what practical advice he could have given to either Carlyle or to Mrs. Carlyle, which would have improved that witches' cauldron?

From Father Payne by Benson, Arthur Christopher