The date arises as a pagan festival related to the winter solstice, however, believers believe that in the darkness of the night, the future can be predicted through some tests.
The night of June 23 and early morning of the 24th (San Juan)popular belief – in Chile and Latin America – celebrates the San Juans nighta festival that is linked to thewinter ostice (June 21) and? marks the arrival of this season to the southern hemisphere.
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The date has a pagan origin and also in the fact that peasants in the northern hemisphere They were grateful for the crops, fruits and having more hours of light to carry out their tasks..
However, after this festival arrived in America, and in the specific case of the Chilean rural tradition, was linked to the supposed world of darkness, mystery and, especially, superstitions.
Thus it was that popular folklore, through oral tradition, began to list a series of rituals that, if performed that night, promise success, love and omens for the future.
The most popular rites of San Juans night
The flower of the fig tree
It is believed that the fig tree it only blooms once a year and it is on the Night of San Juan. Whoever climbs the tree and manages to get the flower you will have success, wealth and happiness for the rest of your life.
musical fig tree
Tradition says that if at midnight you stand with a guitar under a fig tree, You will learn to play this instrument by magic.
The future in three popes
Before midnight, whoever believes in the oracles, can put three potatoes under the bed. Yes indeed, one should be unpeeled, another half-peeled and another completely shelled.
When the clock strikes midnight, and without looking, you have to take one of the potatoes. If you take the potato completely peeled problems and shortcomings are predicted. The potato half peeling indicates that things will be neither good nor bad. Finally, the peeled potato vaccinates the success and abundance.
The name of your future partner
Another rite says that it is possible to know the future in love. That’s what they leave themselves for three papers under the pillowwith the names of people for whom there is a love interest. The next day, without looking, you have to take one of the papers. The name you read could be your potential new partner.
yolk of an egg
It is believed that You can see a person’s future by emptying the yolk of an egg into a glass. There images will be formed that each person must interpret freely.
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