Walpurgisnacht

The wednesday before I left for Canada, Calin, Susane, Julia and I went to the Walpurgisnacht in Leuchtenburg. Leuchtenburg is a castle on a hill about 20 km south of Jena. It is now a museum, but on Walpurgis night, it's ground are reserved for Witches and Warlocks (and Goths since they're already in costume). A lot of people were dressed up and those who were got discount. There were demonic decorations everywhere as you can see around the stage.

Apparently in german, witch means naked woman wearing stockings (not really, but click on the pictures to see what I mean).

The band probably had the best costumes, they were all decked out in leather and pelts. Here you can see the bands not one, not two but three bagpipers all in leather skirts.
They also had a bass player that played with what looked like a chopstick. They were very good.

Here you can see that there was quite a croud, and witchy kids dancing to the music.

When it got a little darker, the firedancer came out.
She was wearing a patchwork dress that Julia was quite interested to see since she will be making her wedding dress with a similar concept.
There were also some less interesting act like the MC witch and her antics, and Professor Fartsalot or something. The later was obviously more aimed at kids.

There was of course the usual event foods and beer which we enjoyed and a big bonfire that started at 10 ish. It was lots of fun.