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Walpurgis Night in Sweden

April 10, 2012

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Walpurgis Night in Sweden. Photo courtesy of alinnman via Flickr.

On April 30 (exactly six months before Halloween), Sweden celebrates one of its main traditions – Walpurgis Night. The holiday, which has its roots in the Viking Era, is a pagan event which pays homage to fertility and the arrival of spring.

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