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Brocken|ˈbrɒk(ə)n|
The name of the highest of the Harz Mountains in Saxony, reputed to be the scene of witches' Walpurgis-night revels. Applied attrib. to a magnified shadow of the spectator thrown on a bank of cloud in high mountains when the sun is low and often encircled by rainbow-like bands (first observed on the Brocken). Also applied to a dramatic representation of the Walpurgis-night revels, and transf.
1801[see spectre n. 3]. 1844E. B. Browning Poems II. 45 Waved backwards (as a wind might wave a Brocken mist, and with as brave Wild roaring). 1860[see spirit n. 3]. 1888G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 136 The Brocken business, which is musically and scenically childish. 1924― St. Joan Pref. p. xvii, Brocken spectres, echoes and the like. 1951L. MacNeice tr. Goethe's Faust II. ii. 202, I could essay many a Brocken-stunt But heathendom seems barred on every front. 1962Listener 11 Jan. 68/1 We may conceive the divine either as an abstract entity..or else as a Brocken-spectre projection of humanity. |