The eve of May Day, on which witches were believed to rendezvous
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Walpurgis Night - Wikipedia  Walpurgis Night is the English translation of Walpurgisnacht [valpsnat], one of the ... The eve of May Day, traditionally celebrated with dancing, came to be known as Walpurgisnacht ("Walpurga's night"). The name of the holiday is Walpurgisnacht or Hexennacht ("Witches' Night") in German, Heksennacht in Dutch,...
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Walpurgisnacht - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  (in German folklore) the night of April 30 (May Day's eve), when witches meet on ... the eve of May Day on which witches are held to ride to an appointed rendezvous ... the eve of May 1, believed in German folklore to be the night of a witches'...
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Walpurgis Night: Witches' Sabbath? - COGwriter.com  Apr 30, 2013 ... Witches' Sabbath COGwriter On April 30th, some observe ... dates, Beltane and Samhain, were very important for the world, both seen and ... 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...
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Walpurgis Night | Crackerberries  Apr 27, 2015 ... Walpurgis Night is celebrated on the eve of May Day. April 30th, the eve of the feast of Saint Walpurga or Walpurgis Night is thought to be a time in which witches are held to ride to an appointed rendezvous. ... It is said that farm animals were let out to graze and bonfires were lit to scare away the predators.
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Saint Walburga | Frankish abbess | Britannica.com  On Walpurgis Nightthe eve of May 1, the day on which her relics were taken to Eichstttwitches are believed to rendezvous in the Harz mountains.
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The Quotations Home Page - Good Starts - Series 26  --The Assignation: A Book of Hours, by Joyce Carol Oates, 1975; Jesse wakes ... It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. --1984, by .... Sitting in the waiting room at Planned Parenthood, Jonathan and his mother made an odd couple. ... --The Witches of Eastwick, by John Updike, 1984. Black is a...
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Maypole - Wikipedia  Dancing around the maypole, in mmeberg, Sweden. A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place. The festivals may occur on May Day or Pentecost (Whitsun), although in ... Non-Germanic people have viewed them as having phallic symbolism, an...
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Film Review: Independence Day (1996) - Horrornews.net  May 6, 2016 ... The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th...
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Mardi Gras History | Origins, Mystery and Lore - New Orleans  Discover the lore and mystery of this New Orleans festive event. ... The dates of the Saturnalia and the Sun festival roughly collided, making for a weeklong, merry midwinter ... Later, the masqus and entertainment continued through Shrove Tuesday, which the French called Mardi Gras or "fat Tuesday," the day before Lent.
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Halloweentrac-print - ecfamily.org  Celts/Druids - The evening of October 31st and the first of November were ... (pagan) feasts (and time off from work) had they merely abolished them outright. ... Halloween is the only widely celebrated modern holiday that still retains it's .... Another tradition, in medieval Europe, held that black cats were witches in disguise.
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June Solstice Holidays and Traditions - Timeanddate.com  People around the world celebrate the day, which is also known as the ... In ancient China, the summer solstice was observed by a ceremony to ... In ancient Germanic, Slav and Celtic tribes, pagans celebrated Midsummer ... including modern-day druids and pagans, usually gather at Stonehenge for ... You might also like.
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Salem Witch Trials (1692) - Geni  Salem Village, Massachusetts, was established in the late 1630s when a group of .... On 22 September 1693, the last of the so-called "witches" were released from ... Samuel Parris also took some blame for his actions in 1694, saying "I may .... 8 October 1692: After twenty people had been executed in the Salem witch hunt...
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Friday the 13th - Wikipedia  Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th ... A suggested origin of the superstitionFriday, 13 October 1307, the date Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of the Knights Templarmay not have been formulated until the 20th century. It is mentioned in the 1955 Maurice...
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Penny's Place In Cyberspace ~ The Day Birds Begin to Mate ~  One of the Legends of the origins of Valentine's Day. ... Literature shows that Europeans believed that on February 14th, the birds began to ... to choose his mate.
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France's Odd New Year Tradition: Counting Torched Cars ...  Jan 3, 2014 ... Bastille Day, France's national holiday on July 14, also sees a peak in ... The spike in New Year's Eve car arson starting in the mid-2000s is likely .... Solution: We have to tell the world on our blogs and with our comments, so the truth becomes known. ... Devil's night on Holowean in Detroit in the 1980s
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Haymarket and May Day - Encyclopedia of Chicago  On May 1, 1886, Chicago unionists, reformers, socialists, anarchists, and ... Between April 25 and May 4, workers attended scores of meetings and ... strike erupted in violence on May 3, and police fired at strikers, killing at least two. ... Police arrested hundreds of people, but never determined the identity of the bomb thrower.
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Monday or Tuesday. - Digital Library Project  He left her a fortune in his will, but on condition that she read all the books in the London Library. ... She told us that it was written by a young man, one of the most famous poets of the day. .... O! to be in England now that April's there. ..... Elizabeth rose and said that in order to prosecute her enquiry she had dressed as a man...
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The Real Irish History Behind Bloomsday | TIME  Jun 16, 2016 ... By setting his most famous novel on June 16, 1904, Joyce captured Ireland's push for ... To fans of James Joyce's Ulysses, June 16 is a sacred day known as ... of Joyce's first date with Nora Barnacle, the hotel waitress with whom he would ... At the timeand ever since the Act of Union had abolished Irish...
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Halloween - Wikipedia  Halloween or Hallowe'en also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of ... A kindred festival was held at the same time of year by the Brittonic Celts, ..... is first recorded in 1911, where a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario reported...
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On a day like today, The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion ...  May 2, 2015 ... The Third of May 1808 The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid or "The ... del tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco .... in his The Second of May, which depicts a cavalry charge against the rebels ... centers on two masses of men: one a rigidly poised firing squad, the other a...
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Maia Maiestas, Goddess of the Majesty of Spring - Thalia Took  ... and an ancient Roman Goddess of springtime, warmth, and increase. ... to grow through Her gentle heat, and the month of May is probably named for Her.