OliviaApr 30, 2025
Never tease a cat, especially not tonight on Walpurgis eve, it will turn into a witch and harm you... #MayEve #MayDay #LegendaryWednesday
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Ele Willoughby, PhDApr 30, 2025

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration 🧵

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #bonfire #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

Show threadAmgineMay 1, 2024

Because it was an important moment of the year, and so many traditions developed around that agricultural 'pause' between efforts, many cultural events also occur(red).

#MayDay / #MayEve pays homage to a range of traditional, religious, and civil holidays like #Maious, #Floralia, #CalanMai, #Beltane, #PrvomajskiUranak, and #Kevadpüha.

#InternationalWorkersDay / #LaborDay has no direct connection, commemorating the start of a #LaborStrike for an 8 hour work day.

May Day - Wikipedia

Forest Path BooksApr 30, 2024
Happy #MayEve!
To celebrate #May & the Eve of #Beltane, we'll be celebrating a month of #Pagan #RobinHood lore & story with The Books of the Wode!
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#LGBTQ+ #SFF #HistoricalFiction #HistoricalFantasy #MaidMarion #Templars
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🕯✒️📜Writch📜✒️🕯Apr 30, 2024

Happy #MayEve or #Walpurgisnacht for those who celebrate! I'll be having birthday cake tonight 🎂 for 36 years running wild on this planet!

https://youtu.be/nLgM1QJ3S_I?si=AFgYFfkF__jCWFGU

FAUN - Walpurgisnacht (Official Video)

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Ele Willoughby, PhDApr 30, 2024

I have made some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches’ Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient celebration of a 🧵1/n

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches

Peter GrayOct 19, 2023
Moira. County Down. c1910. Children hanging fern and gorse on May Eve, April 30th to keep the fairies out. (National Museums Northern Ireland). C/o NI Historical Photographical Soc. #Moira #MayEve #Fairies #Ulster
tinydoctorMay 1, 2023

"Fire lives the death of air, and air lives the death of fire; water lives the death of earth, earth that of water." Heraclitus

#MayEve #Walpurgis I had no hags so I burned snags.

Ele Willoughby, PhDApr 30, 2023

I have been making some art, like this monoprint, about some of the many folk traditions around May Day. May Eve is celebrated with bonfires for Walpurgisnacht and Hexennacht (Walpurgis night and Witches' Night as celebrated in Germany). May Eve is the feast day of Saint Walpurga in celebration of her canonization May 1, 870. But folklorists tie it to a more ancient …

#monoprint #monotype #gelprint #gelplateprinting #bonfire #Walpurgisnacht #Hexennacht #folklore #spring #MayEve #witches