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(S +) Witches orgy in Goethe's »Faust«: clean by day, sour by night

2022-01-02T23:48:27.883Z


In "Faust" Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had multitudes of uninhibited witches dance on Blocksberg, he had cut the grossest piggies. Did the poet himself believe in sorcery?


Witches on Walpurgis Night on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains (depiction on a postcard from around 1935): "It's too great, even for people like me," groans Mephisto

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