Germany's vast and mystifying Harz mountain region is a mecca for those ... In fact, each April 30, known locally as the Walpurgisnacht, witches are said to gather on the peaks of Mount Brocken ...

Elsewhere, with the help of cables, witches appear to fly ... and experience the uncanny." The Harz mountains were one of the last places in what later became Germany to convert to Christianity.

Born in the Harz-mountains once one of the most important mining regions in Germany (silver, lead ... I grew up with the myths of the Harz-mountains, crowded by witches, dwarfs and angels as a source ...

The Harz Mountains, a wooded, mountainous region in central Germany 183 mi/295 km southwest of Berlin, has inspired many eerie legends and folktales. There are several towns and small villages th ...