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Walpurgis NightNight before May 1. The name comes from the 8th-century St. Walburga (or Walpurgis), an English missionary who ran an important early convent in Germany, May 1 being one of her feast days. In Sweden it is celebrated with bonfires as the beginning of spring. In Germany, as Walpurgisnacht, it was the night witches were supposed to meet in the Harz Mountains (see Brocken), though the association of witches with St. Walburga is only coincidental. See also Beltane. Walpurgis Night traditional German witches’ sabbath. [Ger. Folklore: NCE, 2918] See : Witchcraft How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Struchkova and Lapauri made their Western debuts with a concert group of Soviet artists in London in 1954, dancing together in Leonid Lavrovsky's Walpurgis Night. Church bells rang on Walpurgis Night to disrupt witches' sabbaths, and the church orchestrated Good Friday processions at night, an attempt that was ultimately abandoned because of popular "excesses" perpetrated under cover of darkness. Case in point: the orgy, which should evoke a Walpurgis Night, resembles nothing as much as one of those Eurotrash movies of the early seventies, such as Emmanuelle and its progeny. |
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