If the 30th April As the veils between worlds lift, the legendary Walpurgis Night begins, a night filled with myth, magic, and ancient customs. This is not just a special experience for herbal witches: even today many people celebrate the power of nature with traditional rituals, healing herbs and traditional recipes.
- which herbs play a special role this night,
- what old rituals you can easily implement yourself,
- and how you can harness the power of this magical night for yourself with simple recipes.
Get inspired and feel the special energy of this night!
Where did Walpurgis Night come from?
Walpurgis Night originally dates back to the pagan folk festival “Beltane”, which our ancestors celebrated as a fertility festival and offered offerings to their ancestors and gods and played an important role in the annual cycle. The night’s current name originally comes from an English abbess named Walburga. On the Blocksberg (actually the Brockem in the Harz Mountains) but also on other mountains, the «witches» gathered to celebrate this night. This night has been an important part of our culture for hundreds of years. This was also taken up in German literature, for example by Goethe in «Faust», when Faust is taken by Mephisto to the Brocken to find distraction during Walpurgis Night and forget his Gretchen.
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There’s a little bit of herbal witch in all of us
We hope to bring you a little closer to Walpurgis Night in this article. We celebrate a somewhat modernized form of ritual and we will not dance around the fire, but we will consciously enjoy nature and the energies of the herbs in the garden and we will be grateful to be able to perceive these energies. Accompanied by incense, we will make conscious use of the night. We also enjoy a sip of May punch and a fresh herbal tea based on spring herbs Plantain plantain, margherita pizza AND Nettle. If you want to delve deeper into topics relating to wild herbs and medicinal plants, visit our online shop of the little herb witches at look further. Here you will find books designed by us, our wild herb magazines and children’s books as well as our own Seasonal calendar of wild herbs.
Important herbs for Walpurgis Night
Two aromatic herbs are very important fresh, since in this period they are particularly abundant in nature. Waldmeister AND Gundermann should not be missing on any Walpurgis Night. With the fragrant woodruff you can prepare a delicious May punch with or without alcohol. Gundermann is also suitable for refining, but you can also use it to conjure other treats, for example fantastic
The fire on Walpurgis Night
The traditional fire can be lit in the garden. Wild inside Wald you shouldn’t light a fire. If you are unable to go outside, you can use a small incense burner to light a symbolic fire in the form of incense in your apartment. They are particularly suitable for smoking mugwort, wise or rosemary. These herbs can already be found in the garden. However, they should have been dried first. You can find more information about smoking in our article “What you should consider when smoking resins and herbs„.
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Walpurgis Night can be accompanied by culinary delights, for example with Gundermann waffles and a delicious May Punch. To do this you should collect fresh woodruff that has not yet blossomed at the time of the lesson, let it dry overnight so that its aroma intensifies and then prepare it with sparkling wine and white wine or alternatively apple juice.
For three or four people you will need:
- A bouquet of fresh woodruff
- 500 ml sparkling wine
- 500 ml of white wine
Four or five woodruff stems, which must wither for at least half a day, preferably overnight, are mixed with 500 ml of white wine and left to macerate for about three or three hours. Then the woodruff is removed again, the punch is poured with sparkling wine and it can be served with ice or garnished with fresh gundel vine. For the non-alcoholic version you can use apple juice and a lemon balm tea flavored with woodruff. This is also very tasty. It is important not to add more than 3 g of woodruff per liter of liquid. You can find detailed information about woodruff in the article “Collect woodruff now – you should pay attention to this – toxicity, recipes, advice«Laws.
Seed set for wild herbs and medicinal plants that flower in summer
We would like to help you bring plants into your garden that are no longer commonly found in the wild. That’s why we created a special seed set that contains exactly these wild herb and medicinal plant seeds. You find them Assemblies (available here) exclusively in the “Seeds” category of our herb shop All the plants it contains are valuable to humans and insects and it is worth planting these plants, which are no longer so commonly found in nature, in the garden. The more wild plants there are in the garden, the more comfortable the insects will feel. We only have a limited number of sets, so don’t wait too long. Especially since the seeds should be sown early.
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The gathering of wild herbs on Walpurgis Night is particularly legendary. Who made a wreath margherita pizza binds, is said to maintain fertility. Hawthorn is also harvested during Walpurgis Night, which is also said to symbolize fertility. In particular, the dew that forms on wild plants on Walpurgis Night is said to serve as a beauty elixir if carefully collected in the early hours of the morning.
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