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Originally posted by Aleck:
Walpurgis Night (or Walpurgisnacht) is the Germanic witches’ sabbath held on May 1 (the name comes from the Catholic festival which is held on St. Walpurgis’ canonization date of May 1, 779…it’s part and parcel of the Christian church’s tradition of replacing pagan festivals with “holy days” and renaming them.
That’s interesting. My source for Walpurgis Night is [i]The Book of Fabulous Beasts[/i]. It describes “Walpurgis-Night” as the folk belief that on one night of the year witches would fly around stealing unbaptized enfants. They were said to congregate on a mountain top and sacrafice the children to the Devil, then drink their blood and roast and eat their flesh. The book makes no mention of a basis on any real holiday.