Crossword-Solution: WALPURGISNACHT 14 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 25

The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnacht to hear the rattle of artillery at Gravelotte.

Nachbarin! Euer Fläschchen! (Sie fällt in Ohnmacht.) Walpurgisnacht Harzgebirg Gegend von Schierke und Elend Faust.

Eberhard concerned himself little about the vagaries of the sheep and pigs, and only laughed a little as the great black goat, who had seen several Midsummer nights, and stood on his guard, made a sudden short run and butted down old Hatto, then skipped off like a chamois into the darkness, unheeding, the old rogue, the whispers that connected his unlucky hue with the doings of the Walpurgisnacht.

The first of May is the Festival of the Holy Apostles in Italy; but in Germany, and still farther north, in Sweden and Norway, it is _Walpurgisnacht_,--when goblins, witches, hags, and devils hold high holiday, mounting on their brooms for the Brocken.

The theory that _water_ was the prime element, a theory advocated especially by the old Ionic philosopher Thales, was held by Goethe, who was a 'sedimentarist' in geological matters, and in this classical _Walpurgisnacht_ he has introduced, much to the annoyance of many critics, a dispute between Thales and other sages on the question whether the formation of the world was due to fire or water.