I found this description of Midsummer.....it sounded very magical!!
But what the h-ll ....I´m going to pick some flowers today and put them under my pillow!! Will you? If you do and dream about someone special...come back and tell me!
Happy Midsummer everyone! Happy midzomer iedereen! Bawb canol haf Hapus!
Happy Jónsmessunótt allir! Счастливые каждый середине лета!
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Glad Midsommar alla!
**In peasant society, folklore was a midsummer night of the year's most magical nights, when the natural flow of forces. The boundary between human world and the supernatural realm was believed to be thinnerthan usual and there are many stories about the amazing things that could happen this night.
Medicinal Plants was said to be especially powerful, and were therefore under the midsummer night. Midsummer dew was also sought after, they went barefoot in the would stay strong and healthy throughout the year. The dew were also used to cure diseases and to get bread and beer to ferment properly during the year. Medicinal Plants was said to be especially powerful, and were therefore under the midsummer night. Midsummer dew was also sought after, they went barefoot in the would stay strong and healthy throughout the year. The dew were also used to cure diseases and to get bread and beer to ferment properly during the year. In some places you will also visit special midsummer sources and drank of the water in them to get health and strength.
Midsummer was also an appropriate time for the treasure hunter. It was said that enchanted treasures then step out of the earth and was visible to humans. If you managed to be quiet, you could get hold of them - broke the silence disappeared, however for good.
Fortune telling and notice were common in peasant society. The major festivals during the year was considered particularly suitable for predicting the future. Midsummer was the love feast and wantedto know whom to live with this was the right time.
Love Fortune telling was probably mostly playful pursuits, but there was still an ounce of seriousness in them. A form of midsummer magic still exists today: to pick flowers to put under your pillow to dream of the man should marry. The flowers were picked according to tradition, in silence - breaking the magic was also broken. Just silence is a common feature of peasant society magical thinking, an indication that it is a rite performed.
The number of flowers that were picked are varied, but the most common numbers are seven or nine. Uneven numbers are perceived as magical in many cultures, perhaps because people see even numbers as more balanced and therefore more "normal". Sometimes it also says the tradition of the track to climb over as many fences as she picks flowers. This can be seen as a symbolic border-crossing between the ordinary world and the supernatural.**
Medicinal Plants was said to be especially powerful, and were therefore under the midsummer night. Midsummer dew was also sought after, they went barefoot in the would stay strong and healthy throughout the year. The dew were also used to cure diseases and to get bread and beer to ferment properly during the year. Medicinal Plants was said to be especially powerful, and were therefore under the midsummer night. Midsummer dew was also sought after, they went barefoot in the would stay strong and healthy throughout the year. The dew were also used to cure diseases and to get bread and beer to ferment properly during the year. In some places you will also visit special midsummer sources and drank of the water in them to get health and strength.
Midsummer was also an appropriate time for the treasure hunter. It was said that enchanted treasures then step out of the earth and was visible to humans. If you managed to be quiet, you could get hold of them - broke the silence disappeared, however for good.
Fortune telling and notice were common in peasant society. The major festivals during the year was considered particularly suitable for predicting the future. Midsummer was the love feast and wantedto know whom to live with this was the right time.
Love Fortune telling was probably mostly playful pursuits, but there was still an ounce of seriousness in them. A form of midsummer magic still exists today: to pick flowers to put under your pillow to dream of the man should marry. The flowers were picked according to tradition, in silence - breaking the magic was also broken. Just silence is a common feature of peasant society magical thinking, an indication that it is a rite performed.
The number of flowers that were picked are varied, but the most common numbers are seven or nine. Uneven numbers are perceived as magical in many cultures, perhaps because people see even numbers as more balanced and therefore more "normal". Sometimes it also says the tradition of the track to climb over as many fences as she picks flowers. This can be seen as a symbolic border-crossing between the ordinary world and the supernatural.**
I have picked flowers many times and put under my pillow ... but I can´t remember that I dreamed of someone special. One time when my aunt was here and she just got divorced, I dreamed that my aunt fell in love with her neighbor who was single dad ..... maybe she needed some extra magic so they gave her my magic..
Happy Midsummer everyone! Happy midzomer iedereen! Bawb canol haf Hapus!
Happy Jónsmessunótt allir! Счастливые каждый середине лета!
I am definitely going to pick flowers and see what I dream. I wonder if there were any significant flowers to pick, I mean I always sleep with a dozen or so under my pillow, but that is only in my dreams *obvs*.
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...any significant flowers to pick...Maybe that´s why i don´t dream about someone special ... I pick the wrong flowers..*obvs*
ReplyDeleteDon´t pick BIG flowers! you will wake up funny!! just think..to have 7 or 9 flowers, big as sunflowers under the pillow ... can´t be good for your neck!
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Elly
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