1. Popular legend makes it the meeting place of the Walpurgis Night or Witches' Sabbath.The "Brocken scene" in Goethe's Faust is set there.

2. Brocken the highest of the Harz Mountains of north central Germany.It is noted for the phenomenon of the Brocken spectre and for witches' revels which reputedly took place there on Walpurgis night