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Walpurgis is me known very well... but its more a kid thing here where i life now...

As Kids we walk through the village to collect Apples and Cake... and this peeps which didnt PAY got the WITCHES OF THE WALPURGIS NIGHT... The funny fact the ADULTS went to the DANCE into MAY ( most of em dont know why ).

The Walpurgisnacht (also witches burning) is a traditional Northern and Central European festival, partly with fire smoke on 30 April. The name derives from St. Walburga, whose feast day was celebrated until the Middle Ages on the day of her canonization on May 1. The Walpurgisnacht was the Vigilfe of the festival. As a "Dance in May", it has also found its way into private and commercial events as an urban, modern festival event on the eve of May Day because of the opportunity to dance and socialize.

Engraving by W. Jury after Johann Heinrich Ramberg (1829) on Goethe's Faust I: "A little thief's liveliness, a little bit of rambling. This is how the wonderful Walpurgis Night haunts me through all the members. "
Many Walpurgis rites live on in peasant May-customs. In folk tradition one protected his yard by nocturnal whip cracking, designed brooms and Maybushes. The maypole, usually a birch, is at the same time fertility symbol and actor of the world tree. At Walpurgis, the maypoles are traditionally brought from the forest into the village to put them in front of the house. In the village center is danced around the tree. The tree thus symbolizes the fertility of nature, which in this way is brought to the people. Ritual acts of love in the fields allegedly transferred human fertility to the soil in pre-Christian times. A special role is played by the monoliths in the Wendland (for example in Woltersdorf and Trebel), which were considered to be brittle bridal couples. It should have been a custom that on Walpurgis Night girls with exposed genitals slipped over these stones in order to wish their lover.

Many of the Spring Festival customs are entwined with young couples symbolizing the human community. The walk between two Walpurgis fires should purify and keep out pestilences (Walpurgis is considered the patron saint of plague, cough and rabies). The witches' bonfires, celebrated even today in large parts of Germany, presumably go back to this tradition. With the rigorously practiced Christianization not only in Germany, these old customs were condemned as pagan, the original, in the view of some researchers on matriarchal social structures due importance was lost and in rural youth.