Bald Mountain (folklore)

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Bald Mountain, also called Lysa Hora or Łysa Góra, (

The exact origins and factual evidences of the concept are unclear.^[citation needed] Notable "bald mountains" include the Łysa Góra in Poland, Lysa Hora and Zamkova Hora hills in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Cultural references

• Night on Bald Mountain (musical composition by Modest Mussorgsky and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov inspired by the legend)
• A Bald Mountain can be found in
  Jesus of Nazareth) was crucified and it is the location of a sabbath it which Margarita
  takes part.
• In 1970s, in Belarus, an anonymous poem A Tale of the Bald Mountain (Сказ пра Лысую гару) was widely circulated by samizdat. It ridiculed the "sabbath" by the members of the Belarusian Union of Soviet Writers, who quarreled during the allocation of dachas for them. ^[2][3]
• In
  Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, the witch Naina Kyivna, the landlady of the protagonist regularly flies to Lysaya Gora for what is called "Annual Republican Convention".^[4]
• Łysa Góra (Elder Speech: Ard Cerbin) is a location in the role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

See also

• Lysa Hora (disambiguation)
• Walpurgis Night
• Hill of Witches, Lithuania

Other locations for witches' sabbath in folklore

• Blockula (Blåkulla), Sweden
• Brocken, Germany
• Kyöpelinvuori, Finland
• Šatrija, Lithuania

References

 Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article: О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа (Даль)/Ведьма

1. Vladimir Dahl
   , О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа [On Beliefs, Superstitions and Prejudices of the Russian People], 1845–1846 (see Wikisource)
2. ^ "Охота на последнего ведьмака" ["The Hunt for the Last Witcher"], Belarus Today, January 1, 2003
3. ^ "Ніл Гілевіч — Сказ пра Лысую Гару"
4. ^ Толоконникова С. Ю., "УТОПИЧЕСКИЙ НЕОМИФОЛОГИЗМ БРАТЬЕВ А. И Б. СТРУГАЦКИХ В ПОВЕСТИ «ПОНЕДЕЛЬНИК НАЧИНАЕТСЯ В СУББОТУ»", ВОПРОСЫ РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ, issue 3, 2015, pp. 31-32

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