Sentence examples for midsummer tradition from inspiring English sources
The most important annual festival is Jāņi, a midsummer tradition based on an ancient pagan ceremony that celebrates the summer solstice.
The Scandinavian Midsummer traditions stem from pagan times, showing the defeat of darkness to the powers of the sun god.
Weather frequently changes around midsummer, and, thus, the tradition that this day influences the weather may stem from earlier, possibly pre-Christian, belief.
Cultural tradition Every midsummer, the country celebrates the Naadam festival to mark Mongolia's independence.
Unfortunately, a lot of traditions surrounding Midsummer are on the verge of being lost.
For all the traditions celebrated at midsummer, life on the archipelago is very distant even from its recent past.
5. Samhain is one of eight annual festivals commonly celebrated by pagans of various traditions, along with Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnassad and Mabon.
Tradition identifies this as a snowball supplied at midsummer and a white calf surrendered but then killed and shared by landlord and tenant as a token of mutual esteem.
In Japan, more than a hundred thousand tons of eel are consumed annually (about seventy per cent of the worldwide eel catch), mostly kabayaki-style and during the hottest days of midsummer, on and around the Day of the Ox on the Chinese zodiac, in late July (a tradition invented by the owner of an eel restaurant in the eighteenth century).
