The oak carvings
Eighty figures from Lithuanian myth.
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Lithuania's pagan midsummer festival on the night of 23-24 June: bonfires, flower wreaths floated on water and the search for the mythical fern flower — still celebrated across Lithuania, and this hill is one of its historic sites.
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Eighty wooden sculptures in a pine forest: the Hill of Witches at Juodkrantė on the Curonian Spit is a forest path climbing an old dune, lined with oak-trunk figures from Lithuanian myth — witches, devils, dragons, princesses and pagan gods. The project began in 1979 when folk carvers from all over Lithuania were invited to work on the hill at summer carving camps; the idea was to revive pagan folklore in a Soviet era that suppressed religion and identity together — so it passed under the cover of "folk art" and is today among the best-loved national sites. The path is a level loop of about two kilometres among the trees, free and always open, and many of the carvings are made to be played on: swings, slides and chairs cut for children. The name comes from an old tradition: the hill was the site of the pagan midsummer Joninės celebration.
Eighty figures from Lithuanian myth.
Carved from trunks along the path.
Juodkrantė, Neringa