Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:450:Walpurgisnacht (Jeremy Bornstein)

From the Quicksilver Metaweb.

Walpurgisnacht is a witches' festival celebrated on the night of April 30. Apparently the location of its original celebrations is right where we are in this chapter, in Germany's Harz mountains. Six months from Halloween, Walpurgisnacht is also a celebration to drive out evil spirits.

External Links

• http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgisnacht
• http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/walpurgi.htm
• http://www.wildweb.de/hexen/brocken.html - More specifically we seem to be on the "Brocken" here.
• http://www.levity.com/alchemy/faust18.html - Referenced in Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Faust"