It would take years to identify all the references in this masterpiece. Here is compilation of information we collected from various sources (namely the Jan Vonhellemont Annotations and the Middlebury Annotations), but remember that there are always more references!
This scene sounds a great deal like one from Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Margarita is treated as a queen and surrounded by naked witches and other fantastical creatures by the glow of the moon.
