Let's Celebrate Walpurgisnacht & Beltane || Pagan Happy Hour

[@carole5648]

I don't know much about walpurgesnacht but I can't help but imagine her just telling the town folk what they wanted to hear. " yep I'm just driving out all the witches, don't worry about them anymore, we're all Christians here, just hanging out in the woods with our herbs, nothing to see here, move along."

[@testrabbit]

LMFAO @blending

[@kikibrueckner]

I am from Germany, living close to the Harz mountains and have been hiking there a couple of times. They still celebrate Walpurgisnacht in a lot of villages there with big fires, music and a witchy theme. It is said that on Walpurgisnacht the witches gather at the Hexentanzplatz, in english witches dance place, in the city of Thale and then fly up to the Brocken mountain. I find this area still mystic and nice for hiking. There even is a hiking trail called “Harzer Hexen Stieg” which has the name witch in it. In this area, the villages spread a medieval vibe with cute timberhouses, for example Quedlinburg and Goslar, both UNESCO heritage sites. So, all in all I can recommend this region. Unfortunately the woods there are dying due to the dryness and the bark beetle.

[@imimaginingchaos]

I love listening to two specific songs on this day: "Walpurgisnacht"by Faun, "Beltaine" by Beltaine 😌✨

[@testrabbit]

I have a staff made from Ash from a tree felled by lightning upon which I engraved some runes. I lacquered it and cleaned it up.

[@miriamocean6776]

Hsppy Beltaine from down under Australia 🌛⭐🌜

[@AF-tv6uf]

We have a Garden Faire here in Harrisburg PA. The Society for Creative Anachronism does a full maypole dance!

[@achyleftistwitch]

Sad I missed it live, but good stream! I've been braiding white and red string (and a bell!) for the past few days to tie around the tree by my front door. Using this new moon Beltane to plant my garden after my ceremony with the tree. I plan to leave sparkling wine as an offer and planting a spell under my garden. Will burn some offerings as it gets dark...can't do a bonfire

[@tamatelford2759]

Caudle recipe I use: 1 tbsp oats ground up into coarse flour 1 cup whole milk Dash of salt 2 large eggs beaten well Dash of nutmeg Heaping tbsp of honey Bring milk and oat flour to boil stirring constantly over medium high heat. Reduce heat to medium. Add beaten eggs slowly stirring constantly. Remove from heat when mixture is thick about 2-3 minutes. Serve hot in mug with scoop of honey and dash of nutmeg.

[@yj2552]

Bring back Pagan Happy Hour :)

[@fantasticbeck3938]

14:55 Man I want to see The Northman so bad, and you're making me want to see it even more! Too bad my small-town movie theatre isn't showing it :(

[@danielavolkmann6422]

I live near the Harz Mountains and we went for Walpurgis celebration on the 30th of Mai, and on 1st of May we celebrate Maibaum in our village.

[@danielavolkmann6422]

Yes, there’s some witchy vibe in the Harz. You will find many shops selling witchy stuff and there’s a town called Thale were you will find tourist attractions related to the witches (like the witches dancing floor for Walpurgisnacht) and germanic mythology (there’s a beautiful Wotan statue, for example). Another great place in the Harz is The Devil’s Wall (Teufelsmauer) in a town called Blankenburg. Everything behind the walls belong to the devil. I go all the time to the Harz with my family… coming from the “Ilha da Magia”, the witches island in Brazil, it’s good to live near to the witches mountains.

[@alicemay4037]

Hello from Armenia, happy Beltane

[@sandyblack9698]

Belltane blessings to you scarlet. 🔥🔥🍺🌛🌕🌜

[@rolandkdavid6245]

You are amazing miss scarlet ☃️

[@danielavolkmann6422]

About fire… we have participated in one Walpurgis celebration where they had a bonfire. But in our village, the fire celebration happened two weeks before the Maibaum. We call it Osterfeuer (Easter Fire).

[@Allanhorns]

By the Old calendar (Julian) it's the night of the 8th and the day of the 9th. We typically call this Old Beltane and Old Witches' Night.

[@MichaelMalxAlexander]

My bday is st. Patrick day and in the year of the dog in Chinese zodiac and I have been visited by ravens for as long as I can remember. Love your channel keep up the great content Scarlett

[@MichaelMalxAlexander]

My ancestors were of German and Scots and I have always been a lover of fire. Yet I'm a Pisces and love the sea. Surfing snowboarding and wake boarding are my sports but fire afterwards is necessary lol

[@MaHa-um5sv]

I've been to the top of the Brocken, it's a nice medium hike. :) But the vibes were constrained by the people I was with, so will have to go back. Touristy witch stuff in the village, didn't have a chance to stop in. Oh and it's pronounced "Harts" in German. Harz. It's not Bavaria, those mountains are much higher. It's Sachsen and Sachsen-Anhalt. (Saxony/Saxon-Anhalt) Closest "big" city is Leipzig. Nice discussion thank you!

[@pinkskitchen]

Cool my friend. TFS. Stay connected 😊

[@lissydaseinhorn632]

Thank you, i really enjoyed this Episode 🥰

[@jessecreegan9451]

I have been watching old videos of Scarlets and she hasn't changed in looks except the hair. it's like watching a twin of yours in a darker hue. same level of insightful information, just beautiful all around and everything is aging gracefully.

[@Hecateofcrossroads]

On a wooden wheel of the holidays I’m getting it says they are the same and for some people I believe it is

[@annesvlogs4763]

Florida, drinking tea

[@drhayward4635]

You are awesome 👌

[@Cassafrass89]

I have read and heard that Ostara was first mentioned in a writing by the brothers Grimm in the 1800s, and though Eostre was a goddess, is Ostara a historically celebrated pagan holiday or more of a neo holiday?

[@GravesRWFiA]

someone raised the question if fey are around, what happens if it doesn't get back in time. the fey on Beltane are the trooping faeries. not some lone pixie or misplaced sprite but the great courts of the sidhe relocating for a season. they do not get locked out.

[@Joe_Sharpe_Untethered]

Awe, so sorry I missed this but I hope to make it next week!

[@LuisRivera-vf9pk]

Hey, Scarlet. Mind if you add in your two cents on the Wild Hunt myth?

[@testrabbit]

my friends from a band outside old Ft Devens in Massachusetts wrote a song called Walpurgisnacht.

[@nathanielsizemore3946]

Decades ago I learned a tradition around the May Pole, An equal number of teenage males and females would do the dance, each going in an opposite direction, and the person you ended up facing at the end was your date/mate for the day. Any children resulting from the frolicking would be called Goddard (god's Daughter) or Goddson (God's Son) and the village would raise the child with the biological parents not being held as the true parents but The Lady and her Consort as the true parents.

[@AnaS-of8ri]

Thank you so much for this interesting tradition. How fascinating!

[@nathanielsizemore3946]

@@AnaS-of8ri You're welcome.

[@Korradoar]

weird. I made home made apple cider (non-alcoholic) randomly today too. I usually only make it for Halloween and Yule.

[@MichaelMalxAlexander]

I celebrate by going mushroom hunting in the mountains

[@testrabbit]

I like y'all cuz you do some research and make it interesting. You're doing something good by actually teaching people about their own history, which unfortunately prior to current times was lost upon most Christians. Not many of the Christian community understands what has happened here historically. Oh, we have some great IPAs brewed in this area. Go online, cuz they deliver.

[@testrabbit]

We even have a meadery near me... you'd like it.

[@testrabbit]

Massachusetts has a huge community... Salem and Boston areas

[@juliereminiec4937]

Walpurgisnacht is on April 30th

[@AlphaJayCharlie]

So I have a question that’s been irking at me since diving into paganism and it’s culture. I’ve fallen in love with it and feel a real connection to it. Cernunnos, spiritual growth and nature being where I’m most driven too at the moment. But a part of me has worried that because I don’t have pagan ancestors (I’m a non Spanish speaking hispanic military veteran from ny) maybe I won’t be welcome in the culture? I know it’s a silly thing but it’s been a lingering thought of mine and wanted to get your input on that worry. Should I be discouraged from traveling down this pagan path since I don’t fit what some would see as rhe “demographic”

[@galadriel9127]

"The little Witch", "Die kleine Hexe" is a very popular story about good and bad for childreen. What does it mean to be a good witch?

[@Hecateofcrossroads]

I heard today that it’s produced byowl )I think like bowl) tin-a

[@danielbellon1635]

lily of the valley

[@testrabbit]

I always spill libations to the fallen... definitely continue that tradition

[@TempleofBrendaSong]

I only do that on Samhain

[@testrabbit]

@@TempleofBrendaSong it's always Samhain somewhere... According to GR anyhow.

[@mcnally145]

It’s pronounced byeltanna in Irish.

[@testrabbit]

see you saying hexennacht actually spelling it out. They're afraid of "baneful" magic... how about banning Russian tanks from Ukraine? Would that be ok? So mote it be.

[@testrabbit]

And she did this so the priests of the "new" temples could use their converted members mental energy to fuel their own designs... maleficence or not opinionary I suppose. Plenty of snakes near me on the St Patrick's Day thing ... good thing he couldn't drive them all out and don't care if they only bite the neighbors.

[@tempestgrey4629]

Late again crap Seattle area and coffee

[@syddlinden8966]

They don't just "hearken back." I literally converted from christianity to paganism because christian holidays have the dates they do IN ORDER to convert pagans. Choosing those dates were acts of cultural genocide on the part of the church and resulted directly in the massive loss of traditions we will never be able to recover as pagans. The church is the reason pagan reconstructionism will never be able to actually achieve the goal of the movement.... And that is just heartbreaking to me. As such... celebrating a holiday of persecution and keeping the name of the celebrated persecutor attached to it seems... odd? ...unless it's like a pissing on her grave kind of thing? not really vibin with that.

[@danielsmithson4870]

06/06/2022, Wikipedia has a article on Brocken, the tallest mountain in Harz, and an interesting historic map from 1732 shows witches; its URL is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brocken#/media/File:Brocken_L._S._Bestehorn.jpg