Brewer's: Bermoothes

An hypothetical island feigned by Shakespeare to be enchanted, and inhabited by witches and devils. Supposed by some to be Bermudas; but a correspondent in Notes and Queries (January 23rd, 1886, p. 72) utterly denies this, and favours the suggestion that the island meant was Lampedusa.

“From the still-vexed Bermoothes, there she's hid.”

Shakespeare: The Tempest, i. 2.

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