Walpurgis Night. Who is the Sabbath?
 

"On the eve of May 1, as well as on the eve of November 1, opened the border between worlds, and the devil of all stripes gathered for their holiday. Because in the evening on April 30 everywhere in Europe, bonfires. Frightened and predators, which could devastate the herd (since May began pastoral season), and vermin.
And evil had their dance. The forces of evil fun everywhere, but was especially known German Valpurgisnaht, Walpurgis Night. Every year on the night of May 1 at the top of Brocken (and Bloksberg) in the Harz Mountains (from Hart - "wooded mountains, there are growing fir) flock of ceramic tile, vilah and box thousands of European witches."

"Walpurgis Night - April 30, May 1, germanskomu to popular belief, is an annual celebration of witches gathering in the night around their master, Satan, on high, inaccessible mountain Brocken, where they were celebrating their" Sabbath. "Believe it, derived and Goethe in the 1 st part of "Faust", happened near the end of VIII century, probably in the same manner as has arisen and spread the belief in witches and witches in general: since 1 st May, a special Celebration pagans (the first spring holiday, Beltayn), the older women and in general all those who could not immediately abandon the pagan rituals in favor of Christianity, despite the strict prohibition (under penalty of death) continued to gather in places inaccessible to a suitable manner, ie, singing and dancing, meet the 1 st of May. Furnishing (campfires, wilderness), and perhaps deliberately dissolves these secret pagan rumors (to get rid of unnecessary witnesses), it helped to spread among the people of stories about witches who get together that night in various inaccessible places. The name is derived from the coincidence with the celebration of May 1 St memory. Valpurgi (Valburgi), sister of St.. Willibald, canonized in 778 "



This is where all the details:
http://www.wedma.fantasy-online.ru/w....valpurgis.htm
Witch brooms prepared? Who flies? : D

relevant topic for me because my daughter went in the morning on this Sabbath. Experience as parents however.
Exhibited photos of the place of the event, from the archives of my daughter last year. There is going to dark people, some drinking and smoking, with the advent of darkness dance "ritual" Dance of the Celts by the thunder of tom-toms. Equally interesting will happen tomorrow. Place a bit distant, there exists not a lot of roads and output are picketing the police. They check for drugs and stuff .... Begins the real cat and mouse, small heaps of people sneaking round. Fun shorter.

sergejnowo, if my daughter wanted to go to such a place, I would find a number of objections ..

however the people there are not evil, like a hippie, on average, not from poor families.

And conversely, I'll tell her daughter that she went to this place, as soon as her children grow up and be something to understand. At least this way you can instill in foreign grandchildren love the beauty of nature.

sergejnowo, it is far from Hamburg?

300 km.
This is not exactly the place for which he wrote SergeiSK. About 50 km south-east.
The event is based on the traditions described SergeiSK and orderly "society" lovers of ancient Celtic culture.
And the place is http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externsteine (unfortunately not in Russian) the most famous of the places described the ritual sacrifices of the Celts. The "rock" there is a monk's cell, they are now partially bricked up, soft rock, may collapse.
Here the fires just burn not only in specially equipped places. And at such events, is certainly worth a fire truck on alert around the corner.

Sabbath
 

Report Walpurgis Night 2009
Guests were two times more than last year, 1600 - 1800 people. In contrast, a contingent of last year, dominated the age of 18 to 30 years, people with knowledge of the traditions and history as well as his mind and body, attended the mass of young people aged 14-15 years. Instead of having to ceremoniously drink a bottle of beer, vykutit can not and hit the Celtic drums, slowly and ceremoniously enter a trance, newcomers spoiled holiday. Literally: the young girl walked unsteadily to camp with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a bottle of Coca-Cola in the other. They drank vodka with the throat and sipped Coca-Cola. However from time to time asking each other - well, you're on a witch saw that tree? And I saw ..., with rooogami. : mad:
Police saw this thing did not interfere - with the young in Germany not get anywhere. But beautifully performed the clean-up the next day.
The next morning at 7:00 with the use of amplification equipment was played reveille and given one hour fees. At 8:00 all the brethren with a police escort is derived from the forest to the nearest railway station and put in train.:)

Photos will not?

: D: D
no
We, the parents, too, did not show

So they must be inexpensive to buy. :): p;): D