Users of Remind wrote in
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 |some English speakers might be more familiar with the name "Walpurgis
 |Night", the first night of witches and complement to Halloween, the
 |second night of witches
 |
 |the dancing is more generally reserved for dancing around the maypole
 |on May Day (the day after Walpurgis)

Hmm, where is this?
I would not think of a relation here, and the dancing is a hundred
percent in the night to May.  (Germany.)
Btw the german wikipedia page [1] has pictures which are "more
like the spirit" that *i* get from it, i like especially the (very
romantic though very baroque) [2] -- and it is very true, is it.

  [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgisnacht
  [2] 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgisnacht#/media/Datei:Falero,_Walpurgisnacht,_1878.jpg

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
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