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Highest point in the Harz Mountains, central Germany. Its granite peak reaches 3,747 ft (1,142 m). When the sun is low, shadows from the peak become magnified, casting gigantic silhouettes on the upper surfaces of low-lying clouds or fog below the mountain. This effect, known as the Brocken bow or Brocken spectre, has mystical significance in the mountain's folklore. Traditional rites enacted there on Walpurgis Night became connected with the legend of Faust
Brocken specter
{i} spirit, ghost, phantom; optical phenomenon that sometimes occurs at high when the image of an observer located between the sun and a cloud is displayed onto a cloud as an extremely enlarged shadow
brocken specter
A mountain specter (which see), esp
brocken specter
that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains
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