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Now indeed, says wikipedia, near Kyiv there are at least 2 places like that. Those are in the hills around Kyiv, called “
Kyiv Hills.” In specific we have a location called
Lysa Hora in a wooded nature reserve and yet its top is empty of trees and whose name in Russian literally means “Barren Mount,” that is to say “Bald Mountain.” The tradition tells that such site had regular gathering of witches. On the other hand the place staged and backed bloody battles in WW II and even before, at the beginning of 20th century, there had been built a
small Russian fortress —in the 80s equipped with a
radio beacon and today the
Kyiv Fortress museum— where were
hanged to death over 200 prisoners.
Still in Kyiv, but near its center, there is also —as part of the Kyiv Hills— the called
Zamkova Hora (“Castle Hill”) where was built a castle. According to wikipedia, it was site of witch gatherings, later in the 18th century becoming a
cemetery, and in 80s place of structures for satanist ceremonies. Peculiarly in the slopes of Zamkova Hora since the 16th century have been erected and destroyed Christian buildings such as the church of
Sts. Florus and Laurus, a wooden monastery, the “
Ascension Convent,
” and at last the place was surrounded with commercial buildings.
Out of Ukraine two other Slavic countries have their “Bald Mountains.” One is
Lysa hora (translation: Bald Mountain), the highest mountain of the Moravian-Silesian Beskids range in the Czech Republic. Another claimed sabbath hot spot is on
Lysa Gora (translation: Bald Mountain), a 595 meter (1,952 ft) hill in Poland, where is the ruins of a pagan 9th century wall, a 11th century Benedictine monastery, and today a TV Tower as well as near the top a
mass grave with the soviets executed by Nazis.
Ah, I was almost forgetting to mention: the play “
Night on Bald Mountain,” (Russian:
Noch′ na lysoy gore), was composed by 19th century Modest Mussorgsky, inspired by Russian literary works on the
Witches' Sabbath theme occurring on St. John's Eve. This is best known as the orchestra composition used in the famous
1940 animated film of Walt Disney called “
Fantasy.”