• Friday, Oct. 17 – 6:15-7:30 
  Victoria Square, 60 Victoria St., E., Amherst

This event which kicks off Esther Fest 2025 will begin with a Witch Dance featuring The Chignecto Isthmus Witches of Wind & Water. You are welcome to watch or join them in dance!

The Witch Dance started in Germany in 2016 when the women of the Wolfshäger Hexenbrut (The Wolf Hunter’s Coven) performed a flash mob-styled dance at a Walpurgis celebration. The Dance was posted online and quickly went viral. Since 2016 the Witch Dance Movement has grown and there are now groups all over the World.

In October 2022 a group of 19 witches…seven Sea Hags flew in from Eastern Passage Nova Scotia, five BB’s (border bitches) boogied on over from Amherst, and seven Sacred Sisters sashayed across the marsh from Tantramar… and together they danced and laughed in the wind at Fort Beausejour. They have since danced in Parrsboro, Eastern Passage and at Trueman’s Blueberry Farm. We are thrilled to have them back at Esther Fest for a third year!

Then gather ‘round the campfire to hear submitted local ghost stories read aloud by host Charlie Rhindress and share your own. Bring a ghost story, as well as a chair or a blanket to sit on.