Why a Booktrail?
Brocken Mountain is known for its witchery connections….
The Little Witch
What you need to know before your trail
The little witch was only a hundred and twenty-seven years old. That´s not at all old for a witch. She spent about six hours a day doing exercises in witchcraft, but she couldn´t get her spells right. Then she got into deep disgrace at the Walpurgis Night party. She was given a year to make herself into a good witch or be expelled. So many strange and funny things happened to her that year, she began to wonder if she would ever pass the final test.
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Travel BookTrail style to Brocken Mountain, Saxony-Anhalt
The Brocken is also called Blocksberg and is the highest peak of the Harz mountain range and also the highest peak of Northern Germany. In the book, the witches come to dance around the mountain.
From the top, you can see the towns and villages that dot the countryside, among them Wernigerode, with its half-timbered buildings. Another destination is the mountain plateau known as the Hexentanzplatz.
“That night, she rode to the Brocken Mountain. All the big witches had met there already. They were dancing round the bonfire, their hair flying and their skits fluttering. There were perhaps five or six hundred witches, marsh-witches, mist-witches and storm -witches, wind-witches, flower-witches and herb-witches
The witch is only 127 years old and that’s very young for a witch apparently and lives in a wood in the middle of a wood. There’s plenty of woods and woodland nearby and if you stay in a B and B in the area, you’d really get a sense of the scenery the witch lived in. Nationalpark Harz is one such park in the area.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Little Witch
Destination: Saxony Anhalt Author/Guide: Otfried Preußler
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