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BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS 13

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Summary: Midsummer Eve

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People believed that on the eve of Midsummer (21 June) there was evil around and so they lit large bonfires to scare away this evil. As the flames died down young men jumped through the embers.

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Midsummer Eve
© Ian Fleming, NICLR

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