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Walpurgis Night (/ v æ l ˈ p ʊər ɡ ɪ s, v ɑː l-,-ˈ p ɜːr-/), [3] [4] an abbreviation of Saint Walpurgis Night (from the German Sankt-Walpurgisnacht [zaŋkt valˈpʊʁɡɪsˌnaxt]), also known as Saint Walpurga's Eve (alternatively spelled Saint Walburga's Eve) and Walpurgisnacht, is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is ...
However, from the late 1980s until 2017 it was unofficially used for annual celebrations of Walpurgis Night, which featured fire-dancers and jugglers and attracted as many as 15,000 people. [ 3 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 2014 David Borymski published a half-hour documentary on the event called Fackelkinder (torch children). [ 16 ]
Walpurga's feast day is 25 February, but the day of her canonization, 1 May (possibly 870), was also celebrated during the high medieval period, especially in the 11th century under Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne, so that Walpurgis Night is the eve of May Day, celebrated in continental folklore with dancing.
Walpurga or Walpurgis may refer to Saint Walpurga (8th century), an English missionary in Germany; Walpurgis Night, a holiday celebrated in Central and Northern Europe; Royal Armouries Ms. I.33, a medieval manuscript on swordsmanship which is also called "Walpurgis MS" La Noche de Walpurgis, a Spanish horror movie; 256 Walpurga, Main Belt asteroid
At the conclusion, author Dusty Sklar points out that Hitler's suicide happened during the night of April 30 – May 1, known as Walpurgis Night. The narrator continues: "With Hitler gone, it was as if a spell had been broken".
In 1769, Thomas Pennant wrote of Beltane bonfires in Perthshire, where a caudle made from eggs, butter, oatmeal and milk was cooked. Some of the mixture was poured on the ground as a libation . Everyone would then take an oatmeal cake, called a bannoch Bealltainn or "Beltane bannock ", which had nine knobs on it.
On Walpurgis Night, Gilman dreams that both Keziah and Brown Jenkin are sacrificing the kidnapped child in a bizarre ritual. He thwarts Keziah by strangling her with the chain of a crucifix , but Brown Jenkin bites through the child's wrist to complete the ritual and escapes into a triangular abyss.
Articles relating to Walpurgis Night (30 April – 1 May), the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia. This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt , both of which occurred on 1 May 870.