How To Use Midsummer Eve In A Sentence
- Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horses stall or the cows crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
- Just as in Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
- The soft midsummer evening was just right for a romantic stroll around Malham Tarn.
- May-day dances and revelling have reached our days, and probably they have, like the Midsummer Eve's festivities, their origin in the far off times when the Fairy Tribe inhabited Britain and other countries, and to us have they bequeathed these Festivals, as well as that which ushers in winter, and is called in Wales, _Nos glan gaua_, or All Hallow Eve. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
- In midsummer every town is impossibly crowded.
- Scandinavia the parasitic rowan is deemed a countercharm to sorcery, so in Germany the parasitic mistletoe is still commonly considered a protection against witch-craft, and in Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man or beast. The Golden Bough
- In midsummer every town is impossibly crowded.