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Drawing Down the Moon

 

Some historical evidence showing that witches had a ritual that was used to draw down the power of the moon.  Although these examples the power was drawn down into the items of magickal works rather than upon the witch herself.  Most modern witches will take this power and redirect it into the magick of her coven. 

 
Horace 65-8 B.C. 

His works;  Poet Odes, Carmen Saecular, Sermons, Epodes, Epistles, and Are Poetica 

Horace has left an elaborate description of the proceedings of two witches in the Esquiline cemetery.  At the new moon they steal into it to gather bones and noxious herbs, their feet bare, their hair loose, and their robes tucked up. So far from aiming at secrecy, however they alarm their neighbors with cries. Making a hollow in the ground they rend a black lamb over it to summon the dead. Then taking two images, one of wool representing a witch, one of wax representing the man whose infidelity she wishes to punish, a witch performs magical ceremonies; the moon turns red, hellhounds and snakes glide over the spot. Then they bury the muzzle of a wolf and burn the waxen image; as it melts, so fades the life of it's prototype. 

In Greece Thessalian women had the reputation of being especially powerful witches; there poisons were famous and they were said to be able to make the moon descend from the sky. 
Lucan A.D. 36-65 Civil War (Pharsalia) 

The silver moon yields to their execrations and burn with a smoldering flame, even as the earth comes between her and the sun, and by it's shadows intercepts its rays. Thus is the moon brought lower and more lower till she covers with her froth, the herbs destined to receive her magical influence.