defestival1-5, Exercise 2: How well documented is Walpurgis Night?

Model answer (check each):

Best documented: the saint. Walpurga was a real English-born abbess in Germany in the 700s, and her feast day and relics are recorded in church sources.
Well documented: Goethe's Walpurgis Night scene in Faust (1808), which is a published text and made the Brocken gathering famous.
Documented but later: witch folklore of the Brocken, found in early modern stories and accounts. The date of 30 April as the night for the gathering is part of that tradition (check the earliest sources).
Documented and recent: Harz tourism and the costumed festival, which developed largely in the 1800s and 1900s (check; the Hexentanzplatz attractions near Thale date from around 1900).
Claimed but not shown: that it continues an ancient pagan spring festival. Spring fires are common in many cultures, but a direct line of descent is not demonstrated.

The point is to separate the saint, the legend, the literature and the tourism, which are different layers with different evidence.