And today we have Bibi Blocksberg teaching kids the joy of seasons and festivities through Walpurgisnacht.
Feels like some kind of cultural accomplishment.
Belief in witchcraft correlated with industrialization. As the world develops, more people a persecuted as witches.
The UN has even gotten involved in this: https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/ie-albinism/witc...
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
The most industrialised countries in the dataset correlate with the lowest belief.
But the population in those areas is not increasing much, unlike the others.
Unfortunately, neither China nor India are in the dataset.
Better saufen than some of the history:
https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/kriegsende/20-Apri...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendeanlagen_auf_dem_Brocken#A...
You're right, the Harz has a lot of interesting and more recent history. There's a graveyard: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfriedhof_Oderbr%C3%BCck
I'm hiking the broken for "sunrise" every 26th of Decembre and I know how cruel the weather is up there. It has fog 2/3 of the time and has single digits (celsius) most of the time. Pretty interesting place. Also one of the lowest natural tree limits in the world with a meager 1142m.
Unlike an eagle, it has weak feet. While it never carries away animals, when hungry it can make chamois or even sheep fall to their death, if it surprises them near the edge of a mountain cliff, by beating them with its powerful wings.
While its German name is very misleading and in the past it has actually been a reason for unjust persecution, its ancient Latin name was perfectly suitable for it: "ossifraga", which means "break-bones". The Lämmergeier feeds almost only on the bones that remain after other scavengers eat the meat, by letting them fall from great heights on stones, to be broken.
My father told me about celebrating 8 May 1945, and the russians (due to time zone?) still celebrate on 9 May, but killing prisoners and even getting yourself killed in Apr 1945 sounds like die NS-Jungs hatten eine sehr lange Leitung.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Day_(9_May)
The place where the (second) surrender document was signed:
Such sloppiness (or just plain lacking grasp of language) doesn't mesh well with the high-falutin' style attempted; it adds up.
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ETA: Oh yes, now I remember: "Blah blah Mephistopheles and Faust, blah blah, the former having sold his soul to the latter." Or if it was "Blah blah Faust and Mephistopheles, blah blah, the latter having sold his soul to the former." Any which way they wrote it, I'm pretty sure it was the other way around.
Just to reassert: Makes it damn hard to take the whole thing seriously, and certainly makes the style more grating.
(but by the time it gets its own DIN maybe it'll become „der Kaugummiähnlichtapiokaperlenkondensmilchhonigeinwegeistee“?)
I like the idea of mashing up Nietzsche's Abyss with Moore's Rorschach: "None of you abysses understand. I'm not stuck here gazing into you. You're stuck here gazing into me."
Lagniappe:
Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it true that the Capitalists are standing on the edge of an abyss?"
Radio Yerevan answers: "Yes, true. And our goal: to catch up and go beyond them!"
PS. If there were a bounty, my entry would be not DE:Boba Nacht, but rather FR:Boba Fête...