Note 46 — Chapter XI · TRIBES BORDERING ON KORDOFAN, SHILLUK, NUBA, TAKALE, ETC.
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A custom more especially prevalent in the Harz mountains on the evening of 1st of May, the night of Walpurgis, when fires are lighted on the hills, and torches tossed into the air, to drive away the witches, who are supposed on this occasion to be making holiday. This custom is alluded to in Goëthe’s Faust.—Tr.