WTF .......its Walpurgis

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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. Celebrations in Finland include a carnival and the drinking of alcoholic beverages, particularly sima, a type of mead. 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.

In Germany, Walpurgisnacht or Hexennacht ("Witches' Night"), the night from 30 April to 1 May, is the night when witches are reputed to hold a large celebration on the Brocken and await the arrival of spring.

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.

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Dang... totally forgot! Had wanted to do a ritual, but been so busy...
May do it tomorrow still.

The English name is Beltane. Walpurgis is the Germanic version of it.

Am sure the God and Goddess wouldnt mind a late celebration... ((( Cyrstal )))

absolutely..there is time...

Thank you! They will have to be a bit more patient, cos I got this cold on Saturday, not feeling too well. I've got this really cute mini Maypole I made myself some 6, 7 years ago, I may put that up, even though it's the 4th already.

Can't reduce the size, Photobucket is being a git... But this is my Maypole:





Funny, now I think of it... I did buy my obsidian raven skull on Saturday. An important moment to me... Raven has been my power animal for years, always wanted a raven skull, but wasn't ready for it till now.
Hoping to get it in by the end of this month :)
Maybe buying him was my ritual for this year, haha.