walpurgisnacht
Usage examples of "walpurgisnacht".
In this regard, Halloween echoes a later Germanic custom of Walpurgisnacht, when witches were alleged to hold their unholy sabbath on the last evening of April.
Her keening filled the room with a Walpurgisnacht of crazy shapes and, when she saw I was alone, she flung back her head and howled.
On this occasion there had occurred a veritable Walpurgisnacht of destruction.
Festival may have been derived from the Walpurgisnacht on the Brocken.
Part I of Goethe's Faust, the Walpurgisnacht six-toed danceathon on the Harz- Bröcken, in which there's described a classic 'Bröckengespenstphänom.