The night of San Juan

 

     Every year on the 23th June at midnight, an event is celebrated in a lot of sited around the world. In Spain, the most superstitious and party lovers make rituals to use the magic energies of this night.  However, where does this magic come from? All is related to “San Juan Bautista” and the solstice of the 21th of June. For this reason it is called the night of San Juan.

   The night of San Juan is a celebration with a very old origin that is related with some ritual that “it pretends to give more power the sun”, because the light hours lower.

  There are different ways of to celebrate it. In Spain, some rituals are to jump the waves or to jump the bonfire. It is thought that this magic night made our wishes.  Furthermore the lovers have your own ritual; the guy has to throw a bouquet of flowers when he will be jumping and the girl must catch it in the air, if not fall the lovers will have eternal happiness.