Akerra or Akelarre is a Basque word that meaning "male goat."
- Witch-hunters used the phrase as an euphemism for witches' sabbats, which they imagined to be presided over by a goat.
- The phrase is most known as the title of Goya's witchcraft artwork, which shows witches with a big male goat.
- In Castilian, the corresponding term is Aquelarre.
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