Walpurgis Night
- The closing sequence (Night on Bald Mountain / Ave Maria) of Fantasia (1940) is intended to portray Walpurgisnacht and not Halloween, as is popularly supposed.
- In the 1931 film Dracula, a Romanian peasant describes the night on which the film begins as Walpurgis Night.
- In the 1986 fantasy/horror movie Troll, a witch named Eunice St Claire (June Lockhart) describes to Harry Potter Jr. (Noah Hathaway), that Walpurgis Night is a witches' sabbath, where the "denizens of the unknown cavort (party hearty)".
- The Campus Loop, a nationally syndicated TV show from the University of Texas at Austin's student television channel, KVR-TV, had a set of episodes entitled "The Maltese Pumpkin" that were set on Walpurgis Night.
- The television show Lexx had an episode called "Walpurgis Night" that originally aired on 24 August 2001.
- La Noche de Walpurgis (translated as Walpurgis Night) is a 1971 Spanish horror movie, the fourth in a series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky.
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See also
- Holidays in Sweden
- Flag days in Sweden
- Holidays in Finland
- Flag days in Finland
- Faust
- Faust (opera)
- Mefistofele
- Beltane
- Halloween (which falls six months to the day either before or after Walpurgis Night)
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Notes
- ^ About the Church of Satan
- ^ The name of the holiday is Walpurgisnacht in German and Dutch, Valborgsmässoafton in Swedish, Vappu in Finnish, Volbriöö in Estonian, Valpurgijos naktis in Lithuanian,Valpurģu nakts or Valpurģi in Latvian, čarodějnice or Valpuržina noc in Czech, chódotypalenje Lower Sorbian, chodojtypalenje in Upper Sorbian.
- ^ Thorsson, E. "Northern Magic", page 48. Llewellyn, 2002.
- ^ Norse Holidays and Festivals
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Walburga
- ^ Patron Saints Index: Saint Walburga
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint Walburga
- ^ JK Rowling interview in full BBC 19 June, 2003
For the Ballet see: http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=24679 and http://www.nysun.com/article/59397, amongst other souirces.
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