This interpretation is not supported (in its entirety) by most early modern sources, which generally describe the experience caused by flying ointments as one of prolonged death-like trance in which the ecstatic flight, wild dancing and carousal of the Sabbath were experienced in dream only, the body of the witch remaining immobile and thus incapable of any actual dancing, (- see, for example, the accounts in the Magia Naturalis of Giambattista della Porta).