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Any German people on here?

Im listening to a song called Walpurgisnacht and I'm just curious as to what that actually is.
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It's literally "Walpurga's' Night". Referring to Saint Walpurga who brought Christianity to Bavaria-- and who protects against plague and witches.

On her feast-- Walpurgisnacht-- they have bonfires to keep the witches and evil spirits away. Her relics are in the town that had the last witch trial in modern times, Eichstaett*.

There are identical things in other parts of Europe. Like in the North it is St. John's Eve.

People like burning shit.

[i]*that might be wrong. there might have been trials in Europe after Eichstaett.[/i]
NagaLord19 · 26-30, M
@CopperCicada I'm a pyro so this I understand. Lol! Thank u for being informative.
@NagaLord19 lady saint with a torch. that rocks.
NagaLord19 · 26-30, M
@CopperCicada fuck yeah it does.
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@CopperCicada TFW you live in Bavaria and never heard this story...
NagaLord19 · 26-30, M
@SW-User I live in Ohio.
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@NagaLord19 I don't.
@SW-User That's what I was told by my kin. I learned about her relics at Eichstaett studying the trials there. I made the St. John's connection myself.
@SW-User Now that I think about it, Eichstaett might not have been the last trial. I forget.
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@CopperCicada I don't even know what Eichstaett is. :S
@SW-User It's a city between Muenchen and Nuremberg.
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@CopperCicada Bah, München sucks!
I know why I don't know it though, it moved from being in the superior district of Franken to the loser district that is Oberbayern!

I don't know anything outside of Franken.