Results for "summer"
16 entries found.
- Midsummer and St John's Eve herbs and fires Rite
- Midsummer and St John's Eve Day
- Summer solstice at Stonehenge Day
🇸🇪 Sweden and 5 moreMidsummerJāņi; Joninės; Jaanipäev; Enyovden; Litha; Juhannus
A summer solstice festival marked by bonfires, maypole dancing, and feasting across Europe.Tradition · Protection · Luck and prosperity Living
🇪🇪 Estonia and 5 moreFern flower
A mythical bloom said to bring fortune and unlock secrets, found only on midsummer night.Belief · Luck and prosperity · Love and attraction Living
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 moreSt John's Eve
A Christian vigil marked by bonfires and plant gathering on the summer solstice eveRite · Protection · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇪 Ireland and 1 moreBeltaneBealtaine
A Gaelic festival marking the start of summer with protective bonfires and livestock ritualsTradition · Protection · Luck and prosperity Revived
🇬🇧 United KingdomBeltane Fire Festival
A modern Edinburgh performance celebrating the start of summer with fire and danceRite · Wonder and entertainment · Power and authority Living
🇬🇧 United KingdomJack in the Green
A foliate figure worn in English May Day processions to celebrate summerIllusion · Wonder and entertainment Revived
🇮🇪 Ireland and 5 moreBonfire
A large outdoor fire used in seasonal festivals and religious feasts across many culturesRite · Cleansing and purification · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇮🇪 Ireland and 4 moreMay Day
A European spring festival marking the start of summer with flowers, poles and fire.Tradition · Protection · Luck and prosperity Living
🇦🇱 Albania and 5 moreDodolaДодoла / Перперуна
A Balkan rainmaking rite performed by youths in greenery to invoke summer showersRite · Protection · Luck and prosperity Living
🇷🇴 Romania and 1 moreSânziană
Romanian fairies and a summer solstice festival of flowers and magicBeing · Protection · Love and attraction Living
🇯🇵 JapanKimodameshi肝試し
A summer night custom of walking into frightening places to prove courageRite · Wonder and entertainment · Change and initiation Living
🇱🇹 LithuaniaLazdeika the CrabKrabas Lazdeika
A rainbow crab used as an oracle to predict basketball match outcomes in Lithuania.Oracle · Seeing and foretelling Historical
🇯🇵 JapanFūrin風鈴
A Japanese summer wind chime, once hung at temples to turn away evil spiritsCharm · Protection · Seeing and foretelling Living
🇷🇺 RussiaYhyakhЫһыах
A summer solstice festival of the Sakha people marking the new year and nature's returnTradition · Luck and prosperity · Speaking with spirits and the dead Living
🇨🇦 Canada and 5 moreSorcerer's Safari Magic Camp
A performance arts camp in Toronto that teaches magic tricks to young people.Illusion · Wonder and entertainment Living
🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreHaunted house
A house said to hold the spirits of its dead, and how the scares are investigatedBelief · Speaking with spirits and the dead · Wonder and entertainment Living
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Fūrin: 100yen 04:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kimodameshi: Tx-re, Public domain, source
- St John's Eve: Jules Breton, Public domain, source
- Beltane: Stefan Schäfer, Lich, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yhyakh: Humano92, Public domain, source
- Beltane Fire Festival: Stefan Schäfer, Lich, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sânziană: Saturnian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Midsummer: Kora27, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Haunted house: John Anster Fitzgerald, Public domain, source
- Jack in the Green: SiGarb, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bonfire: S Marshall, CC BY 3.0, source
- May Day: Bryan Ledgard, CC BY 2.0, source
- Dodola: Andrey Shishkin, CC BY 3.0, source
- Fern flower: Antoni Piotrowski, Public domain, source