Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Walpurgisnacht tidings

 


"Let us in a cunning wise,
Yon dull Christian priests surprise
With the devil of their talk

We'll those very priests confound.
Come with prong, and come with fork.

Raise a wild and rattling sound
Through the livelong night, and prowl"
- "The First Walpurgis-Night" by Goethe

{Image: "The Witches' Sabbath" by Cornelis Saftleven, circa 1650}