Bald Mountain, also called Lysa Hora or Łysa Góra, (
Polish: Łysa Góra,
Ukrainian: Лиса гора, Lysa hora;
Russian: Лысая гора, Lysaya gora) is a location in Slavic
folkmythology related to
witchcraft. According to legends, witches periodically gather on the "bald mountains" for their "
Sabbath".[1]
In 1970s, in
Belarus, an anonymous poem A Tale of the Bald Mountain (Сказ пра Лысую гару) was widely circulated by samizdat. It ridiculed the "sabbath" by the members of the Belarusian
Union of Soviet Writers, who quarreled during the allocation of dachas for them. [2][3]
^Vladimir Dahl, О поверьях, суевериях и предрассудках русского народа [On Beliefs, Superstitions and Prejudices of the Russian People], 1845–1846 (see Wikisource)