#Bonfires

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Smores but with peanut butter cups 🥜🔥

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Tonight is the Nit de Sant Joan (Saint John's Eve Night or Midsummer Night), a holiday widely celebrated in the Catalan Countries with bonfires and fireworks on June 23rd.

It's the summer solstice, with the shortest night of the year. Traditionally, Sant Joan has been seen as a kind of new year, with many rituals to bring good fortune for the next year. The most famous of these rituals is jumping over a bonfire, but in the last 10 years more or less it has become less common because many towns and cities are passing laws to ban people from making bonfires on the streets or making the necessary paperwork so tedious that people are discouraged from it.

The photos on this post are from Xàbia (in the Central Valencian Country), where the bonfires are still allowed and encouraged by the City Council. A unique element to Xàbia is that its tradition is for all young people to jump over the bonfire wearing a flower crown made of myrtle, which is in bloom in this time of the year. They jump over all the bonfires and, when they reach the last one (the largest bonfire), they make a wish, take the myrtle crown off, and throw it to the flames. This is said to free them from illness and bad luck for the next year.

Photos from La Marina Plaza and Comunitat Valenciana. Information from festes.org.

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Early morning campfire scenes on Instagram: @outdoorsurvivalgear . . : @jesse.kallio

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Rosanna Warren, from Departure: Poems; "Bonfires"

[Text ID: Dawn had brought, meanwhile—always / the story happens mean- / while, during nights of sorrow and sore muscles, days / on the mountain cutting pine,]

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Friendship Refreshes the Soul

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Eve of Bealtaine | Beltane

The Celtic Festival of Bealtaine/Beltane which marks the beginning of summer in the ancient Celtic calendar is a Cross Quarter Day, half way between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. While the Bealtaine Festival is now associated with 1st May, the actual astronomical date is a number of days later. The festival was marked with the lighting of great bonfires that would mark a time of…

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could you do a stimboard with shiloh shepherds and fire [specifically lighters and bonfires?]

shiloh shepherd stimboard with bonfire themes for anon

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University of Roehampton, London, UK

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Bonfires and beer 🍺

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Spent the day hanging in the woods with one of my best friends, ending it with a campfire and brauts.

There really is no better way to end the day!

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28th September

Michaelmas Eve

Source: onepeterfive.com

Today is Michaelmas Eve, which had a considerable set of customs to honour the Archangel Michael, the day before his feast day. As so often with the Christian saints, a merging with the pagan past can be detected. Michael was frequently conflated with the pre-Christian sea gods. In the Hebrides, the Archangel was revered as the patron saint of the sea. A dish called Straun Micheil was baked in his honour on this day consisting of locally grown post-harvest produce together with butter, eggs, and sheep’s milk. It was cooked in a lamb’s skin over an open fire, the echoes of pagan animal sacrifice being positively audible. The cakes were were marked with a cross before being eaten, with a slice tossed on the fire to pacify the devil/sea god. Dances also took place on Michaelmas Eve, anticipating the mummers’ plays of the Christmas season, but the death-and-resurrection theme featured, unusually, a woman, perhaps a further memory of the ancient Mother Goddess-worshipping religions once widely practiced.

In the Highlands of Scotland, the saint was often known as God Michael, whereas in Lincolnshire bonfires were lit in his honour, and seed scattered for the birds, a gesture believed to bring good luck.

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Bonfire in Idaho

Controlled Country Bonfire in Idaho 🔥

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