Joyous Beltane to you!

May 07, 2012 20:50

Beltane, Bealtaine, Bealltainn, Boaltinn or Boaldyn, aka Walpurgisnacht, May Day, etc., the cross-quarter day directly opposite Samhain/Halloween on the calendar.  Sadly, this movie (and poster art) seems to have BADLY misunderstood what it was all about and depicts it as a second (and somewhat worse?) Halloween of horrors.

La Noche de Walpurgis, ( Read more... )

holidays, halloween, 1970s, spain, movie posters, 1971, monsters, spring

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cionaudha May 8 2012, 04:15:07 UTC
GENIUS.

You know I love you, right?

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write_light May 8 2012, 04:20:32 UTC
I had an inkling. *blushes*. Wow! I can still blush!

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bzul May 8 2012, 15:42:10 UTC
From the Strange/Stretched/Hairy Connections Dept.:

Walpurgisnacht is the title of the second act of Edward Albee's play, Who's Afraid of Virginia WOOLF.

Whoa! Or...Ow-woooooo!

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