Buckle your seatbelts, it's....Walpurgisnacht!

[wfgodot]

04.30 anyway:

Walpurgis Night (Wiki)

Walpurgis Night is witches' night (Deutsche Welle)

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The festivities are based on ancient folklore according to which witches were believed to fly on their brooms to the Brocken mountain on the eve of May Day. Together with devils, they would celebrate the arrival of spring there.

It is called Walpurgis Night because it is the eve of the feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Germany.

more at the links

 

[wfgodot]

Wiki again:

Walpurgis Night in popular culture

 

[Tulessa]

04.30 anyway:

Walpurgis Night (Wiki)

Deutsche Welle: Walpurgis Night is witches' night


more at the links

GAH DOE AGAIN GAH DOE WADO. :great:

 

[ModMaiden]

Would love to stop and chat but need to get out my broom and head to Germany!

 

[wfgodot]

[video=youtube;7qVRJmFvSS0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVRJmFvSS0[/video]

 

[Mrs G Norris]

Oh what fun!! I love Europe for things like this

 

[wfgodot]

In terms of American literature, the night's best known for giving a name to the second act of Edward Albee's great play 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', the night's sturm und drang washing violently upon May Day shores with George's delivery of the snapdragons.

 

[Mrs G Norris]

[video=youtube;U10ftE4XQvo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10ftE4XQvo[/video]

Strangely appealing in a Eurovision kind of a way ..

 

[zwiebel]

Oh. Nobody told me. I missed all the excitement.

I did notice there was a terrible, gothic storm with thunder and lightning here yesterday. I couldn't help but notice as I was outside trying to paint a fence at the time.

 

[wfgodot]

Apropos of little more than seasonal pagan hilarity:

[video=youtube;UHxW3INJBg4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHxW3INJBg4[/video]