Halloween Edition: Legend by Goethe, Ghosts and Germs, Commies in Costume

[jana_ch]

• The Brokenberg, a mountain in eastern Germany, is, according to legend, the site of wild witches’ revels. That “legend” goes back to the late 18th century when Goethe used the mountain for the setting of the Walpurgisnacht scene in Faust. Before that, the mountain had had no association with witchcraft at all.

• The 18th-century sage Samuel

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[jana_ch]

Yikes! I've already posted the Samuel Johnson item, just a year ago, under the Ailments Edition.

I have a mind like a steel sieve.

Jana C.H.