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BROCKEN , a mountain of Germany, in Prussian Saxony, the highest point (3733 ft.) of the Harz. It is a huge, bare, granite-strewn, dome -shaped mass and, owing to its being the greatest elevation
Leipzig
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worship . Annually, on Walpurgis night (1st of May), curious rites were here enacted, which, condemned by the priests of the Christian church, led to the belief that the devil and witches here held their orgies. Even to this day, this superstition possesses the minds of many country people around, who believe the mountain to be haunted on this night. In literatureit is represented by the famous "Brocken scene " in Goethe's Faust. See Jacobs , Der Brocken in Geschichte and Sage (Halle
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