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On this witching night children in Voigtland also light bonfires on the heights and leap over them. Moreover, they wave burning brooms or toss them into the air. So far as the light of the bonfire reaches, so far will a blessing rest on the fields. The kindling of the fires on Walpurgis Night is called "driving away the witches." The Midsummer Fires
Luther cleared the doubts of George; George returned with a resolution taken; "Ahead then, ye poor Voigtland Gospel populations! I must lead you, we must on!" And perils enough there proved to be, and precipices on each hand: BAUERNKRIEG, that is to say Peasants'-War, Anabaptistry and Red-Republic, on the one hand; REICHS-ACHT, Ban of Empire, on the other.
He left at that time, for Meissen Country, and the Hill Cantonments, organized there his little Expedition into Voigtland, for behoof of the Reichsfolk; and did not return. Continued, mostly in Meissen Country, as the fittest for his many businesses, Army-regulatings and other. "MEISSEN, 20th March, 1761.
Who in this way got most of the Voigtland, with a fine Fortress, into hand; and had, independently of Nurnberg and its Imperial properties, an important Princely Territory of their own. Thus are the Hohenzollern growing, and never declining: by these few instances judge of many.
Active Wurzburg, active Bamberg, without much connection, snatched up a good deal: Count of Orlamunde, married to the eldest Sister of the slain Duke, got Plassenburg and most of the Voigtland: a Tyrolese magnate, whose Wife was an Aunt of the Duke's, laid hold of the Tyrol, and transmitted it to daughters and their spouses, the finish of which line we shall see by and by: in short, there was much property in a disposable condition.
We have to remember that the eve of May Day is the notorious Walpurgis Night, when the witches are everywhere speeding unseen through the air on their hellish errands. On this witching night children in Voigtland also light bonfires on the heights and leap over them. Moreover, they wave burning brooms or toss them into the air.
Towards the end of Ferdinand's Affair, Cassel Siege now evidently like to fail, Friedrich organized a small Expedition for his own behoof: expedition into Voigtland, or Frankenland, against the intrusive Reichs-people, who have not now a Broglio or Langensalza to look across to, but are mischievous upon our outposts on the edge of the Voigtland yonder.
Go, ask I speak not with boastful tongue In Bareuth, Westphalia, Voigtland, where'er Our troops have traversed go, ask them there Children and children's children long, When hundreds and hundreds of years are o'er, Of Holk will tell and his Yager corps. SERGEANT. Why, hark! Must a soldier then be made By driving this riotous, roaring trade!
Hof, Town and Territory, had fallen to his Father in those parts; a gift of gratitude from Kaiser Ludwig: most of the Voigtland is now Hohenzollern. Kaiser Ludwig the Bavarian left his sons Electors of Brandenburg; "Electors, KURFURSTS," now becomes the commoner term for so important a Country; Electors not in easy circumstances.
Then there is the basil with its mystic virtues, and the cumin-see and cyclamen, which from the time of Theophrastus have been coveted for their magic virtues. Similarly in Voigtland, the common basil was regarded as a test of chastity, withering in the hands of the impure.
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