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Ivan Kupala Day - John the Baptist Day - St. John's Day

"Many of the rites related to this holiday within Slavic religious beliefs, due to the ancient Kupala rites, are connected with the role of water in fertility and ritual purification. Youths would jump over the flames of bonfires. Girls would float wreaths of flowers often lit with candles on rivers and would attempt to gain foresight into their relationship fortunes from the flow patterns of the flowers on the river. Men may attempt to capture the wreaths, in the hope of capturing the interest of the woman who floated the wreath.
There is an ancient Kupala belief, that the eve of Ivan Kupala is the only time of the year when ferns bloom. Prosperity, luck, discernment and power would befall on whomever finds a fern flower. Therefore, on that night village folks would roam through the forests in search of magical herbs and especially the elusive fern flower.
Traditionally, unmarried women, signified by their garlands on their hair, would be the first to enter the forests. They are followed by young men. Therefore, consequent to the quest in finding herbs and the fern flower may be the blooming of relationships between pairs of men and women within the forest."

ceiling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_Nlm0871E&feature=PlayList&p=1D7F0C3A2770E39A&index=0

Moja śliczna

will leave me for the first time, for two whole weeks during the holidays

Jasminum

“Death […] the opposite is desire.”
Tennessee Williams

candlestick

night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMQoAK_3tMk&feature=related

children's day and omnipresent light

ache, scrambled eggs, sms from parents to daughter, sun bathing, frascati, talk with someone very close, visualisation, talking about coming vacation, quite shapely legs, pizza, apple cake with vanilla ice creams, cycling tour, comeback, lambrusco, impossible mission ;) - was so lovely weekend, relaxing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jugmkLZCQGA&feature=PlayList&p=C908CEAEF48BEF16&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11