Walpurgisnacht celebrates springโs arrival on the eve of May. Although the feast honors St. Walpurga, spirits roamed freely this night. Witches were said to gather on the peak of Brocken in the Harz mountains.
Art: M. B. Lagueruela #WalpurgisNight
#Walpurgisnight takes place on the night of 30th April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken mountain in Germany & hold revels with the devil. #BankHolidayWeekend #Beltane #FaustianFriday #GothicSpring #BookChatWeekly #BookWormSat #WalpurgisNacht Image: Joseph Tomanek
Around Europe there are many folk stories of witches turning into hares.
Great stories for Spring and Walpurgisnight
Sculpture by Alex Wells
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โIt seems, forsooth, a little strange,
When we the Brocken came to range,
And this Walpurgis night to see,
That we should quit this company.โ
-Goethe,ย Faust
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โThere is a mountain very high ... whereon it is given out that witches hold their dance on #Walpurgisnight .โ
Jacob Grimm, 1883.
Surrounded by an evergreen forest, the Brocken mountain in Germany is the scene of the greatest witchesโ sabbat every 30 April - #Walpurgisnacht .
Itโs witchesโ night, yโall ๐๐๐ง๐พ #ฮๅธฝๅญ #witchhatatelier #Walpurgisnacht #WalpurgisNight #hexennacht
Happy #WalpurgisNight ! According to #German #Folklore tonight is #Hexennacht ('Witches' Night') when #Witches gather at the #Brocken Mountain, Central Germany, to meet with the Devil or the old God #Odin / #Wodan , for whom the mountain was once a sacred site. #WalpurgusNacht
Off to the #sabbat to meet all those other #witches who have shape-shifted into black cats.
#walpurgisnight #Walpurgisnacht #FaustianFriday
#Artist : Maggie Vandewalle