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Updated: May 29, 2025
The Brocken is, of course, the traditional scene of the "Witches Sabbath" on Walpurgis-Nacht, and many of the rock-strewn valleys seem to have pleasant traditions of bloodthirsty ogres and gnomes associated with them. There is no real climbing in the Harz, easy tracks lead to all the local lions.
It is a Walpurgis-nacht procession, a checkered play of light and shadow, a medley of impish and elfish friendly and inimical powers. 'Close to nature' though they live, they are anything but Wordsworthians.
He seemed always just about to tell me something the very idea of which evidently frightened him; but each time he pulled himself up, saying, as he crossed himself: 'Walpurgis-Nacht! I tried to argue with him, but it was difficult to argue with a man when I did not know his language.
I took from the seat my oak walking-stick which I always carry on my holiday excursions and closed the door, pointing back to Munich, and said, 'Go home, Johann Walpurgis-nacht doesn't concern Englishmen. The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in, while excitedly imploring me not to do anything so foolish.
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