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Walpurgis Night
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Walpurgis Night - the most significant of the pagan festival dedicated to fertility, celebrated the night of April 30 to May 1 (in the Slavic tradition, ZHIVA day). Since ancient times, this time gaining strength and fulfillment of desires; It is considered a very appropriate time for all kinds of cleansing, as well as the beauty of the rites and finding love. It is believed that dreams snyaschiesya on Walpurgis Night - prophetic ...
The name Walpurgis Night is associated with the name of the holy Walpurga, Uimburnskoy nuns who came from England to Germany in the year 748 with the purpose of founding a monastery. Many cases earn a good name, died revered as a saint. After more than a century, with the restoration of the church, her grave was desecrated by the workers, and night threatening shadow Bishop was abbess, scaring him half to death. Soon - namely May 1 - the remains of the nuns moved to Ayshtadt, placing in the void one of the rocks. And from the rock start to flow healing oil, have benefited from many diseases. Walpurga canonized canonized. The emergence of the shadow of the late British women gave ground for various speculation about her identity.
Pagans May 1 special solemnity celebrated the first spring holiday; ZHIVA day in women commit ritual dance around a fire with brooms, symbolically cleansing the place of evil. All jumping through fire, eliminating the infestation after a long winter. All the coming day of the first Travnia devote rest. In the evening of the day ZHIVA bred ceremonial fires on the river banks, and then bathe purifying cold water. The festival that gave roots gossip coven. Dissolve them are people who could not immediately abandon the pagan rites in favor of Christianity, and, in spite of the strict prohibition (under penalty of death of the Inquisition), continued to gather in places inaccessible to properly, ie singing and dancing, to meet May 1st. Furnishing (campfires, wilderness) helped to spread among the people the stories of witches gathering in the night in various inaccessible places.
Woven together pagan and Christian motifs, have revealed a surprising light on the quintessence of evil is a principal festival under the name of the righteous.
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The name Walpurgis Night is associated with the name of the holy Walpurga, Uimburnskoy nuns who came from England to Germany in the year 748 with the purpose of founding a monastery. Many cases earn a good name, died revered as a saint. After more than a century, with the restoration of the church, her grave was desecrated by the workers, and night threatening shadow Bishop was abbess, scaring him half to death. Soon - namely May 1 - the remains of the nuns moved to Ayshtadt, placing in the void one of the rocks. And from the rock start to flow healing oil, have benefited from many diseases. Walpurga canonized canonized. The emergence of the shadow of the late British women gave ground for various speculation about her identity.
Pagans May 1 special solemnity celebrated the first spring holiday; ZHIVA day in women commit ritual dance around a fire with brooms, symbolically cleansing the place of evil. All jumping through fire, eliminating the infestation after a long winter. All the coming day of the first Travnia devote rest. In the evening of the day ZHIVA bred ceremonial fires on the river banks, and then bathe purifying cold water. The festival that gave roots gossip coven. Dissolve them are people who could not immediately abandon the pagan rites in favor of Christianity, and, in spite of the strict prohibition (under penalty of death of the Inquisition), continued to gather in places inaccessible to properly, ie singing and dancing, to meet May 1st. Furnishing (campfires, wilderness) helped to spread among the people the stories of witches gathering in the night in various inaccessible places.
Woven together pagan and Christian motifs, have revealed a surprising light on the quintessence of evil is a principal festival under the name of the righteous.
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