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1. (n.) Walpurgis Night
(in German folklore and literature) the evening preceding the 1st of May, when a witches' Sabbath was held on the Brocken.
Etymology: (after St. Walpurgis (c710–780), Anglo-Saxon abbess in Germany, whose relics were enshrined on May 1)
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1. (noun) Walpurgis Night
eve of May Day
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1. walpurgis night
the eve of the 1st May, when the witches hold high revel and offer sacrifices to the devil their chief, the scene of their festival in Germany being the Brocken (q. v.). This annual festival was in the popular belief conceded to them in recompense for the loss they sustained when by St. Walpurga the Saxons were persuaded to renounce paganism with its rites for Christianity.
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