Germany's Harz forest casts spell in April.(Travel)

The Boston Herald | February 29, 2004| | Copyright

Byline: Tom Bross (SPECIAL TO THE HERALD)

WERNIGERODE, Germany - A gang of shouting, fist-waving women are doing their darndest to scare the heck out of me. They wear kerchiefs, fright wigs, old-lady shawls - and they wield brooms, as if to whack me over the head. Could this be a mother-in-law nightmare come true? What is going on here?

The answer: I've run smack into the weirdly folkloric doings that overtake central Germany's Harz highlands region each April 30 - culminating in dark-of-night Walpurgisnacht, when shamefully pagan things supposedly happen.

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