European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Hig Frits to Tell her Vic try Jet i to Tom fee stunt Yaung attn. Their Tvert loll of Witch footless right an Hind. A off a much Fet Ioven gives up d Conj be Al Hying off on her Broomstick losing it onto the Bonfire instead by Rosemary Sawyer Scalf writer the witches to the Brockm title the stubble is yellow the earn ii Green. There with get Al cd Civer a up every Siya _ Soj Ferfon High lard to Raj i is Sci i  Wolfgang Van Goethe walpurgis night Fri hts Wirtl wretched women with wanted noses and blackened Teeth swooped from their abodes deep in Germany s dark Harj mountains 1o gather in villages such As Hahne Klee find  crud. May Day eve. Marked their last Chance to make mischief and renew Winter s evil grip on the spooky Mountain Region tucked close to the East Weil Border North of Goe Linyen. The cackling Crew faced their perennial Wiilbur is Nihl foe the  ind pretty Miry Queen. Near Tho stroke of 12 the Radiant quit a wielded he Spring nosegay. Thu sink ht1 i Ary spooks and Winter Awny. To tutus rfcs of vi5itfjr? Crow Pleil into the Liny towns in ilu1 legend Laden i or witness the ritual confrontation. According la Lorend on the eve of May 1, Ghchi s Power is .11 its height. Vafi jus ctr eos Wurt Ollit jul j to i a Lect on o  or at a  to a lorm their Blick riles Sotl worship their Devil in Tiisler Olio was  to appear in the form of in animal Foll a go til. . The night was cd  to St. Walput Ris an air huh Century English nun who founded religious Homes in Germany. Munfor Lunatic by her Church Calendar Dikiy coincided Wilh the ave of May Day a night if  festivals  marked Ihu end of Winter. The Pagan festivals passed into of Eklofe As Devil s orgies the most infamous of which was the witches  on the Krockun the highest pin in the liar. Scon Llinas inns have the sarnt1 i Ond ant hey by Lieve that their Wilchie also gathered on the Brincken r said Torbert von Ralh  Grund tourist ourtau president. Hovel ver locals Clarini it s bet n years since mulches have1 congregated on the Peak that now lies in  Germany dotted with military installations. " Lolief in the legend of the witches was prevalent until the i Jos said von Rath if you want my Hamest re Pinion. There Are a Lull believers in witches Luda  uni As Many per rips the belief is nut in m Ich in women is witches is in evil  the1 mar u  Are somewhat like i  antics in the United states. Abingt a half dozen towns still acl out the slug i e Between Winter and summer. We Don t know much about the festivals before the 1u50s," said vim Kali. The festival which is actually a Spring Pagan festival took place at the same place in Bart Grund As it does now. It was celebrated with Lief % fire and Witch chasing. The annual festival was not inner Rupa i until i m when Llie Hitler regime came into Power. Al the end of world War ii the Spring festival  Hanna Klee a tiny health resort South of Gasber claims to have he most Wen known a Purvis Celebration. Although the town recently struck Straw with burning from their in of visitors to t Lahne Kleo. The pc St Vilies  the afternoon of april Jowish Al jut 30 lit Ife inches and i devils parading through the Woods from the nearby town of .  the troop were the May Queen in a White flowing dress with a i or a Crown a e chit of Devil Complete with a Lul and a Green  Wilch Wilh a spider clipping Unher shoulder. Tailing the Trio were a  of Fili payers in Idit Ioil bavarian Gray and Forest Green uniforms and More Little w filth Sand devils who maj Edin a i from 1 to Efland  stood taller than Ili Iofi magi Zint 14, t9b7