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Walpurgisnacht
Walburg was an iconic wise woman and Seid worker (a witch, in the vernacular) who was later transmogrified somehow by the Christians into a saint. Nevertheless, even after this happened people remembered that this night was a holy night for wise women. Thus, Christians were taught to fear it, and them. In Heathenry, this night is one of mystical power as it comes on the eve of May Day, the greatest of the fertility holidays. It was (and still is) used as an occasion for future-casting and other mystical rites. Many choose to reflect on Freya's sinister side, on Hel, and on Frigga; those Goddesses who harbor the dead. It is rather the inverse of the bright fertility and exuberance to come on the morrow and a reminder that life is a cycle.
