Porto celebrates the summer and a beloved saint with plastic hammers, sardines and leeks - Sight Magazine On Porto's steep streets, several thousands of people celebrated the summer in the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries.

Porto celebrates the summer and a beloved saint with plastic hammers, sardines and leeks @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Portugal #Porto #StJohnsEve #StJohntheBaptist

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Let's celebrate Saint John's Eve Saint John's Eve in New York City AKA Noche de San Juan or Festa Junina, is the Latin Midsummer or Midwinter festival.

On St John's Eve / Noche de San Juan / Festa Junina, some Latin cultures jump over bonfires and fall backwards into water three times for luck. 🇧🇷 🇵🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇺🇸

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The Bone Horse dances tonight. #Folklore #StJohnsEve

Midsummer Greetings on this Midsummer Night, today on the Convivio Book of Days blog: www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/midsumm...

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#MidSummerEve #MidSommar #Litha #StJohnsEve #SummerSolstice time Blessings of Healing, Peace, Harmony, Love, Wellbeing to #PlanetEarth our home!

PHOTO: embodying #MotherEarth as Guardian as well as #GreatMother of our Planet in our main #SolsticeRitual at this year's Pagan Spirit Gathering.

It is a special day and even more special evening in Hookland. For today is St. John's Eve and this means feast fires and bone fires, St. John's wort and malkins. Of course it also means the Bone Horse will need roasted ale and cake. Art by @mariastrutz.bsky.social #StJohnsEve #Folklore

The Fair Maid - Mother Goose - Arthur Rackham by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble The Fair Maid - Mother Goose - Arthur Rackham 1913 Please look in my shop for more Mother Goose.

On #StJohnseve some areas gather St Johns wort & leave it in water outside overnight. The resulting flower water is used to wash their faces & is good for the skin.
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Fire Fancies - Arthur Hacker by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble Fire Fancies - Arthur Hacker 1865 A girl and her kitten stare into a fire bathed in the warm light of the flames. Please look in my shop for more work by Hacker and his contemporaries.

St John's Eve is 6/23. It's celebrated in different ways across the world, but the most common theme is the burning of bonfires. Bonfire comes from banefire, which used to be for burning bones. redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkloreSunday #art #StJohnseve #folklore #SummerSolstice

🔥 “They lit a big fire on the boreen and drove the cattle through it…” 🔥 St John’s Eve - Solstice customs from @duchas_ie #SchoolsFolklore — Patrick O’Rourke, Glentown #Waterford recalls a world of fire, fields & folk belief. More to come as we count down to #StJohnsEve in #Waterford ☀️

Bonfires, fairs, frolics and fairies - a look back at the ancient traditions of midsummer and St. John’s Eve Bonfires blazing on every hillside, music and dancing after the fair day, torchlit processions and uncanny rites and blessings to protect barley and beast from the ill-will of the fairies and the evil...

#Bonfires, #fairs, frolics and #fairies - a look back at the ancient traditions of #midsummer and St John's Eve
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It is June and your Convivio Book of Days calendar for the month awaits: www.conviviobookworks.com/blog/the-spi.... Cover star: Christian Skredsvig painting of folks in Norway enjoying a St. John’s Eve boat outing, 1886.

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