How come we don't celebrate Walpurgis Night in the UK?

[OwlHoot]

It was named after an English missionary Saint Walpurga but seems to be celebrated practically everywhere in Europe besides England itself

[cojak]

It was named after an English missionary Saint Walpurga but seems to be celebrated practically everywhere in Europe besides England itself

Because Beltane didn't need to be subsumed by the early Christian Church because it was already on the way out?

Most of northern Europe was still pagan in the 8th century and the pagan/witch celebrations were probably still pretty strong.

The earliest representation of Walpurga, in the early 11th-century Hitda Codex, made in Cologne, depicts her holding stylized stalks of grain. In other depictions the object has been called a palm branch, which is not correct, since Walpurga was not martyred. The grain attribute has been interpreted as an occasion where a Christian saint (Walpurga) came to represent the older pagan concept of the Grain Mother. Peasant farmers fashioned her replica in a corn dolly at harvest time and told tales to explain Saint Walpurga's presence in the grain sheaf.

England was a bastion of Christianity in those days and a lot of early missionary saints were English.

[MarillionFan]

It was named after an English missionary Saint Walpurga but seems to be celebrated practically everywhere in Europe besides England itself

Speak for youself, the coven I'm part of celebrate by holding a mass & killing a virgin.

BTW, has anyone seen AtW lately?

[NotAllThere]

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Most of northern Europe was still pagan in the 8th century and the pagan/witch celebrations were probably still pretty strong...

I've been studying the social landscape during the reformation - most of Europe was pretty pagan then as well. The Catholic church and the reformers moaned about it quite a bit.