It is said that everyone who feasted with her first wrote a will. She was supposed to let both her father and her brothers into bed. It was immortalized in the pages of their novels Hugo and Dumas, Dionizetti dedicated an opera to it, and Byron was so fascinated by it that he stole a lock of her blo
On the night of April 30 / May 1, witches gathered on Mount Brocken. They reached Walpurgisnacht on brooms and goats. Where did this strange celebration come from? The theme of this holiday was used in Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. For centuries, it has been associated with witches Sabbaths
There would be Bram Stokers Dracula without legends from our part of Europe. It was in them that the author of the novel found vampires and ways to fight them. Or maybe even a prototype of a wealthy magnate who turned into a phantom after his death? The literary Count Dracula claims that he is a
All-embracing devotion and religious fanaticism. Ridiculous poems. Clinging to outdated theories and ... the physics of greasiness. Did the students in enlightenment schools learn anything of value at all? The 18th century was a period of deep political, economic and social collapse in the histo