Walpurgisnacht

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Walpurgis Night, a traditional holiday celebrated on April 30 in northern Europe and Scandinavia. In Sweden typical holiday activities include the singing of traditional spring folk songs and the lighting of bonfires. In Germany the holiday is celebrated by dressing in costumes, playing pranks on people, and creating loud noises meant to keep evil at bay. Many people also hang blessed sprigs of foliage from houses and barns to ward off evil spirits, or they leave pieces of bread spread with butter and honey, called ankenschnitt, as offerings for phantom hounds.

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The origins of the holiday date back to pagan celebrations of fertility rites and the coming of spring. After the Norse were Christianized, the pagan celebration became combined with the legend of St. Walburga, an English-born nun who lived at Heidenheim monastery in Germany and later became the abbess there. Walburga was believed to have cured the illnesses of many local residents. Walburga is traditionally associated with May 1 because of a medieval account of her being canonized upon the translation of her remains from their place of burial to a church circa 870. Although it is likely that the date of her canonization is purely coincidental to the date of the pagan celebrations of spring, people were able to celebrate both events under church law without fear of reprisal.

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Walpurgis Night, when evil beings were abroad, and with them human worshippers who still guarded the old faith in secret.

This is very like the occasion of November Eve, which shared with May first Celtic manifestations of evil. Witches complete the list of supernatural beings which are out on Hallowe'en. All are to be met at crossroads, with harm to the beholders. A superstition goes, that if one wishes to see witches, he must put on his clothes wrong side out, and creep backward to a crossroads, or wear wild radish, on May Eve.

On Walpurgis Night precaution must be taken against witches who may harm cattle. The stable doors are locked and sealed with three crosses. Sprigs of ash, hawthorn, juniper, and elder, once sacred to the pagan gods, are now used as a protection against them.

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Lovers try omens on this eve, as they do in Scotland on Hallowe'en. If you sleep with one stocking on, you will find on May morning in the toe a hair the color of your sweetheart's. Girls try to find out the temperament of their husbands-to-be by keeping a linen thread for three days near an image of the Madonna, and at midnight on May Eve pulling it apart, saying:

"Thread, I pull thee;
Walpurga, I pray thee,
That thou show to me
What my husband's like to be."

They judge of his disposition by the thread's being strong or easily broken, soft or tightly woven.

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"The fair maid who on the first of May
Goes to the fields at break of day
And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree
Will ever after handsome be."

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On Walpurgis Night as on Hallowe'en strange things may happen to one. Zschokke, whoever he fucking is, tells a story of a Walpurgis Night dream that is more a vision than a dream. Led to be unfaithful to his wife, a man murders the husband of a former sweetheart; to escape capture he fires a haystack, from which a whole village is kindled. In his flight he enters an empty carriage, and drives away madly, crushing the owner under the wheels. He finds that the dead man is his own brother. Faced by the person whom he believes to be the Devil, responsible for his misfortunes, the wretched man is ready to worship him if he will protect him. He finds that the seeming Devil is in reality his guardian-angel who sent him this dream that he might learn the depths of wickedness lying unfathomed in his heart, waiting an opportunity to burst out.

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"For you see, pastor, within every one of us a spark of paganism is glowing. It has out-lasted the thousand years since the old Teutonic times. Once a year is flames up high, and we call it St. John's Fire. Once a year comes Free-night. Yes, truly, Free-night. Then the witches, laughing scornfully, ride to Blocksberg, upon the mountain-top, on their broomsticks, the same broomsticks with which at other times their witchcraft is whipped out of them,--then the whole wild company skims along the forest way,--and then the wild desires awaken in our hearts which life has not fulfilled."

Bumping and lurking. Enjoying the information dump.

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“Walpurgis Night was when, according to the belief of millions of people, the devil was abroad—when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and air and water held revel.” ~ Bram Stoker, “Dracula’s Guest”

The other Halloween – exactly six months from All Hallow’s Eve – is known as May Eve. April 30 is also known as Walpurgis Night. Beltane, which also corresponds to April 30/May 1, is one of eight solar Sabbats observed by pagans. The holiday incorporates traditions from the Gaelic Bealtaine, such as the bonfire, but it bears more relation to the Germanic May Day festival.

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Ancient Celts recognized only two seasons of the year, summer and winter, and their pivotal dates, Beltane and Samhain, were very important for the world, both seen and unseen.

As with Halloween, the veil separating the world of the living and the dead was supposed to wear particularly thin at this time of year. In Medieval Christendom, it was not only Hallowe’en or All Souls’ Day when a spooky atmosphere was cultivated, but on May Eve, among other nights of the year, it also was believed that the world of ghosts and fairies, and witches and shapeshifters, could spill over to our own.

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Walpurgis Night (in German folklore) the night of 30 April (May Day’s eve), when witches meet on the Brocken mountain and hold revels with their gods…”

Brocken is the highest of the Harz Mountains of north central Germany. It is noted for the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre and for witches’ revels which reputedly took place there on Walpurgis night.

The Brocken Spectre is a magnified shadow of an observer, typically surrounded by rainbow-like bands, thrown onto a bank of cloud in high mountain areas when the sun is low. The phenomenon was first reported on the Brocken.
—Oxford Phrase & Fable.

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Walpurgis Night (521-30): No other scene in Goethe’s Faust places such difficult demands on the reader for understanding its place and significance in the drama The essential meaning which Goethe wished to convey resides in the “Walpurgis Night” revels themselves, quite apart from any necessary association with Faust and his pact with Mephistopheles. Concerning the legends of the May Day Witches’ Sabbath, Goethe associated Faust with the murky spirit world of Nordic, Germanic legend. “Walpurgis Night” therefore provides a logical extension of the hocus-pocus and murky superstition established in “Witch’s Kitchen.” the sources for “Walpurgis Night” used have been traced by scholars from several books borrowed from the Ducal library in Weimar at the time when work en the scene was in progress. For the most part these consist of obscure and pseudo-scientific compendia of medieval folklore from the seventeenth century

>>17643632
where do we lumpen white boyssign up?

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>>17643469
no meduka

>>17643469
Fucking kikes and their revisionism. Beltaine is the name of the Celtic fire festival that marks the beginning of Summer. This muh witches! muh debuls! shit is literally jewish propaganda that came later.

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>>17643474
The more you know

>>17643474
Just wanted to interject with USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Our cult leader is great.

>>17643474
Solo Yolo anybody?

>>17647286

Seriously, is there ANYTHING /pol/ doesn't look at and see Jews??

Bible Black?

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>>17643469
I defeat Brazillian Night

>>17649250
Seriously does /x/ know the first god damned thing about religion or the occult. The fucking jewish religions - specifically christcuckery GOD DAMNED LITERALLY made up bullshit about old pagan holidays just like the bullshit in this thread. Now deny history, you retarded faggot.

>>17650327
<sigh> more /pol/ ranting: "Everything was honey and love the worldwide, until those Jews!!!" -- It gets old, this one size fits all way to look at everything that /pol/ has.

>>17650409
*beginning of Summer

>>17650409
>you ugly hooknosed kike

Come on, more hate! You can do it!

A lot of the west's ideas of the Celtic world you idolize are from Roman writers and predate the Christian Era. But, still it's those Jews that are ruining your life, right? /pol/ is so predicable.

>>17650431
You're never going to learn are you

>>17650431
The Romans never conquered Ireland you historical illiterate. We have tons of Celtic lore. It's more adulterated with christian shit than Roman.

Now let me break this down for you, because jews all have severe LDs:

The jews are the ones who taught everyone else to call everyone else's religions "devil-worship" and claim that everyone else's gods are actually just demons. Hell even the word demon was coopted by your children the christians and never meant evil unless it was cacodemons. The christians picked up this wretched religious intolerance from YOU, the kike. So yes, the kikes are LITERALLY responsible for this mountain of disinfo on native European holidays and religion.

>>17650445

Everywhere you go, everything you do is being monitored by THEM!!!! You're very brave to rant about the jews from your basement stronghold. What a scary world it is.

>>17650458
Jews just being held accountable for what you've done, faggot. What a surprise, abject religious intolerance leads to propaganda against other people's religions!

>ANTI-SEMITE! BAD GOY!!

>>17650467
Is there anything that doesn't trigger you?

>>17650477
Not triggered. You're just a faggot spreading falsehoods which can be flushed down the toilet with a five second google search. And that's unforgivable. Never have we lived in an age of such abundantly available information. And never have there been so many dumbasses.

>>17650483
You forget to say jew or kike in that post, you're slipping. Try again.

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>>17650499

>>17650509

I want to make sure I got this right, you're pissed off this thread exists because it's part of a Jewish plot?

>>17650532
No. I'm tired of /x/ being a breeding ground of stupidity and retarded misinformation that can be dispelled with the powerful arcane ritual of a few seconds of Google. Especially since the vast majority of what /x/ believes about non-jewish religion is lies that jews made up about it and can be disproved in under a minute.

>>17650445
Is there anything good on Celtic lore? Or anything from that time period really.

>>17650539
Well you'll have to cut through all the christian bullshit, which is pretty hard because it's pretty deeply intertwined by now. Oh man, I'm gonna be honest here, I haven't looked into Celtic lore specifically for almost two decades, so I'm not sure I could give great primary sources.

Even the primary sources on stuff like the Tuatha is adulterated by christian leanings. You're gonna have to go on a hunt. Rest assured though, any claim that the British Isles are connected to Middle Eastern "devil-worship" is complete jewish fantasy. Jews and their children tend to pollute what they don't destroy.

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>>17650539
>Is there anything good on Celtic lore?

This book is a really good place to start. Miranda Green would be your next step.

>>17643469
that's a nice painting

>>17650445
They doesn't need to be a direct worshop to devils to serve them. The idol 'pleasure' is the one taking the most souls to hell

So in any cases somehow they adore devils if not choosing God

>>17654109
>Literally preaching jewish dogma
Just stop. You're only proving my point. If any god is evil it's the god of the jews.

>>17643469
That painting just gave me the weirdest boner.

>>17649274
My /d/egenerate brutha