#midsummer day

[pagan-stitches]

This pattern is where I found the insects I used in my midsummer/Kupala piece.

'Bugs Sampler' by MaryHickmottDesigns available on Etsy for download

#pattern #devotional embroidery #summer #summer solstice #midsummer day #Kupala #midsummer eve #midsummer night #bugs #Elizabethan blackwork #insects

[rufousnmacska]

Happy Philip Pullman rips your heart from your chest and gleefully stomps it into the ground Day!

#his dark materials #lyra belacqua #will parry #midsummer day #the golden compass #the subtle knife #the amber spyglass #lyra silvertongue #silverparry

[halljavalge]

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ - midsummer day wreath. Jaanipärg.

#midsummer day #midsummer #summer wreath

[maypoleman1]

25th June

Midsummer Day/ St John the Baptist’s Day

Source: Green Canticle website

Today is Midsummer Day and St John the Baptist’s Day. At Magdalen College in Cambridge an open air service is held in honour of the Baptist. The pulpit is built into the stone wall of the quadrangle which, in years gone by, was decorated in greenery for the service, denoting a decidedly pagan origin to worship on this site. The rather weak Christian explanation for the midsummer garlanding was that the vegetation represented the wilderness through which St John wandered.

The seventh century Irish princess, St Bega, fleeing a forced marriage, ended up shipwrecked off the Cumbrian coast. Finding refuge with the local landowner, Lord Egremont, Bega asked that she be allowed to thank God for her salvation by building an abbey on the spot. The lord, reluctant to give up prime real estate to a fugitive and penniless princess, promised to do so if the following day there was a snowfall, which it being Midsummer Eve, was unlikely even in Cumbria. However the next morning, three miles of Egremont’s land was covered with midsummer snow. The abbey was duly built at modern St Bees. Sadly this tale is almost certainly fiction. An Anglo-Saxon bracelet, allegedly belonging to Bega and worshiped as a holy relic for centuries, was kept at the abbey at St Bees. The Saxon English term for bracelet is beag, and Bega’s life story was probably improvised from this unlikely source.

Today is also rumoured to be when one of the standing stones at Callanish on the island of Lewis walks. Local giants were turned to stone by St Ciaran when they refused to help the saint build a church there. Every Midsummer, one of the giants, known as The Shining One, comes back to life and walks down the avenue of standing stones formed by the Fir Chreig, or “false men”.

#irish folklore #saint bega #john the baptist #Midsummer Day

[ohsharethekmusic]

Song : Midsummer Day

Artist : Park Misun

Album : Forecasting Love And Weather OST Special

#Midsummer Day #Park Misun #Forecasting Love And Weather OST Special #Forecasting Love And Weather OST #kmusic

[cedenike]

#music #the tea party #song of the week #midsummer day #Youtube

[wherekizzialives]

Ask Me No Questions

The sixth tale in my Flashes of Feathers series, Ask Me No Questions, is now available for your reading pleasure this midsummer weekend:

Summer had arrived in all its lush and lovely glory, a feast for the senses of both villagers and wildwood denizens alike. The Village gardens were bursting with blooms and heavy with scent; tea roses, climbing roses, peonies and chrysanthemums, alstromeria, alliums, sweet william and stocks. The lavender plants in nearly every border were thrumming with bees, as was the purple toadwart and the…

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#assumptions #coming out #don’t ask don’t tell #Flashes of Feathers #Midsummer #midsummer day #pride month #St John’s Eve #Tales from the Wildwood

[mayamiyamaillustration]

Work in progress for upcoming events.

#maya miyama #illustration #fairy #fairyride #midsummer day #japanese summer flowers #insects #birds #cat

[sommer-rain]

Midsummer Day - Shady Cat

Taken 2022, 25th june

#My Photos #Shady Cat #Midsummer Laze #Midsummer Day #Midsummer #Finland #Finnish Summer #Outside #Shade #Cats #Our Cats #Animal Photography #Animals #Yard #Upper Frontyard #2022 #June

[checanty]

Midsummer 4.30 AM

#nature photography #ok I missed midsummer by a day but shhh

[dreamingpartone]

They lay down in the soft sand at the foot of the dunes, and then they heard the first bird calling.

#will parry #lyra silvertongue #his dark materials #the amber spyglass #hdm fanart #doodles and miscellania #plus pan and kirj are off there in the distance... #happy bench day folks <3 #someone was playing a very bittersweet piano tune somewhere outside my window as i drafted this.....kinda magical timing. anyway! #why did i choose to draw the dunes this year you may ask? #i don't really have a good reason i just felt like it :) #also in all honesty this didn't turn out exactly how i wanted it to look but considering a whole week went by where i thought #i might not get the chance to even START midsummer art i'm gonna take the win at getting it to this point #i miss!! sharing art!! so i'm gonna share it now

[sourtomatola]

Two jobs, for two bots.

This is for the Midsummer nightmare's boys! I had to draw this after that dream sequence ^^

#Too lazy to color any fancier than that XD #But yeah I cooked this up last night when wanting something to draw #took all day but I'm done #have some angst #fnaf moon #moondrop #fnaf sun #sundrop #art #my art #comic #A midsummer nightmare #Dark fae au #Vampire springtrap #william afton #vampire william afton #This was a theory I had for the game itself #like why Moon's merch is in the basment #so the dead children knew who to go to for rest #and the sun and moon are in the #“Heavens” #Also I loved the movie's #“You had one job” *names two things* gag #child death #tw death #tw murder #tw child murder

[halljavalge]

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ - midsummer day wreath. Jaanipärg.

#midsummer #midsummer day #summer wreath

[useless-catalanfacts]

Sant Joan (Saint John’s Day or Midsummer Day) is celebrated on the night of the 23rd of June and on the 24th of June. It’s the shortest night of the year.

It’s very widely celebrated in all the Catalan-speaking countries (Northern Catalonia, Catalonia, Andorra, la Franja, the Valencian Country, the Balearic Islands and l’Alguer) to the point that it’s considered the national day of the Catalan Countries.

The tradition is to celebrate the night of Saint John’s Eve (in Catalan: la revetlla de Sant Joan) by staying up all night with friends, throwing firecrackers and making bonfires. People eat coca de Sant Joan (a sweet flatbread like in the photo above) and coca de llardons (lard flatbread) and drink cava (Catalan champagne). On the day of Sant Joan, families have a big lunch together.

In addition to this, some areas also add their own local traditions, which often also have to do with fire. The most famous ones are the Sant Joan festivities in Ciutadella (Menorca) and the falles in the Pyrenees (Catalonia and Andorra).

Fire is a very important element in Catalan festivities. It’s believed to come from pre-Christian rituals, where fire is understood as a purifying element and at the same a way to worship or homage the sun, given that Sant Joan is the summer solstice.

According to Catalan legends, the night of Sant Joan is the most magical moment of the year. On that night, you are likely to find magical beings such as follets and fairies who might try to play tricks on you, so be careful!

There are also many superstitions for this night, the most famous of which is that jumping over the bonfire will give you good luck for the next year or will make your wishes come true.

Other superstitions have to do with water. Catalan legends say that all water sources are magical on Saint John’s Night. Many people go bathe in the sea, and some people jump over 9 waves with their backs turned towards the coast, because old beliefs say it brings happiness for the year.

Photos: coca de Sant Joan from Vilaweb, a bonfire in Barcelona from Descobrir.cat, jumping over a bonfire and bathing on Sant Joan’s Eve from 7televalencia.

#sant joan #tradicions #midsummer #saint john's day #cultures #culture #fire #food #flatbread #cake #sweet #celebrations #holidays #summer #catalonia #valencian country #balearic islands

[fckedupnerd]

Me trying to explain to my mom why I am wearing my dorky Chocolate Cartel tee shirt on the airplane: flying makes me nervous so I need things that comfort me 🥺

My mom: and the villains from Wonka comfort you? 🤔

Me: yes 😏

#wonka 2023 #chocolate cartel #fickelgruber stan for LIFE I’m afraid 💯💚 #my comfort character for real #the others are cool too #as is Wonka #but 99%of the comfort comes from Felix my beloved #also I fucking HATE flying #I have 7 flights in the next 7 days 😭😫 #but it’s gonna be worth it to see my family and then go see Mat in Midsummer Nights Dream

[musicalislife]

I know his birthday is in October but still😭

(Some had informed me that it was his name day during that weekend. So happy late name day💚.)

(Video from his instagram story 2023.06.25.)

#finland #jere from vantaa #jere pöyhönen #cha cha cha #bojan cvjeticanin #käärijä #eurovision #instagram story #instagram #birthday #lonely #we have to protect him #midsummer #name day #European tradition