How to attend Walpurgisnacht as a real witch!

Let‘s get ready for Walpurgisnacht! It gets fucking dark and disturbing, as always!

I have already once written about how and why this is a special night for witches, but this year I want to go into more detail! Are you ready to prepare yourself for this very special night? The most important night in a witching life?

First of all, let‘s take a short look on why it is so important?

Traditional demonology considers this as the night that can truly turn anyone into a witch. It‘s the start of a dark journey with no return! Although I mostly digest the disturbing takes of Heinrich Institoris‘ book „Malleus Maleficarum“ in these witching tales, many other sources I came across agree with him on this! Walpurgisnacht makes witches. It is the great party to join! A trip into the hilltops, where there is lots of demons and the devil to have sex with, what is supposed to be so good, it has to be forbidden!

So, this night is so important because it turns a witch into what she really is: In a deep bound romantically as well as sexually with demons and most likely even the devil himself!
Demons were even believed to be the better lovers than any human could ever be, since they were double equipped, if you know what I mean.
… Who could say no to that?

But how do you attend?

Here it gets dark!
Although a little aching heart, a miscarriage or just a gentle but noticeable overreaction to anything can cause the demons to be interested in you as a witch, there are certain steps to be taken if you really want to join! Attending is not easy, since you have to find your way into the hills and on a specific one high up in the sky.
So, to attend, any witch has to learn how to fly. And just taking your broom and jumping off the roof won‘t be enough. One dark ingredient is needed:
A child.
Yes, witches were believed to use newborn children that have not yet been baptized in any way (because if they were yet, the magic won’t work, you know) to cook them into a potion. I could not find any more detailed instructions, so I think they are supposed to be cooked until fluid enough to smear on other things.
This potion then is to be filled into a round shaped bottle and smeared onto which ever object you planned on flying with. Yes, it did not have to be a broom. Witches were believed to fly on anything with the help of this potion.

Once this was done, the party could start! The rest of the potion was drunk as wine with the demons around! It was orgy with no comparison in the mortal world. Another fun fact about demons: They were believed to be infertile in this reality, so any housewife could really lose it up there with no consequences!

…Except for the dead babies, of course.
Just think about the fear of witches stealing your baby away before the priest arrived, in a time that had one of the highest mortality rates for them in Europe.
Like I said, this gets really dark.

So, this is what it apparently took to join Walpurgisnacht.
Do I have to add an „don‘t to this at home“?

If this seems a little to excessive, just going out for a normal dance seems fine enough for me. Or, you know, read my Twitter and Facebook tomorrow evening, because I am going to publish something completely new for this Walpurgisnacht!

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For the context:
When reading about this, I often came across the term „Hexensabbath“, and I want to take a short look at why I have been avoiding it ever since. This German word is made of the word „Hexe“ (meaning witch) and the word „Sabbath“, which shows the antisemitic roots the inquisition and the belief in a witching conspiracy has. The inquisition was hunting down any non-christian citizens in late medieval and early modern Europe. Hunting down so-called witches was only one chapter of that. This myth of a witching party in the hilltops is a brutal and tasteless if not heartless attack on any other, non-christian from of organized tradition, clearly shown in the term „Hexensabbath“.