Popular belief says that this Friday night is a good opportunity to leave the bad behind and attract abundance into our lives.
The last minutes of Sunday, June 23, and the first few hours of Monday, June 24, popular belief – in Chile and Latin America – dictates that the San Juans night.
This festival is linked to Winter Solstice (June 21) and? marks the arrival of this season in the southern hemisphere and summer in the northern hemisphere.
What is the origin of all this celebration?
The date has a pagan origin and sun worship, in the fact that peasants in the northern hemisphere They were grateful for the crops, fruits and having more hours of light to perform your tasksaccording to instructions The world.
When transferred to America, and in the Chilean rural tradition, the date was linked to the supposed world of darkness, the mystery and especially to superstitions.
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Thus it was that popular folklore, through peasant oral tradition, began to list a series of rituals that, if performed that night, promise success, love and omens about the future.
In the religious sphere, on this same date the birth of John the baptist. An arrival that was announced by Zechariah with a great bonfire in the night of June 23 to 24.
Hence the pagan festival was adapted to Christianity to celebrate the advent of John the Baptist with the lighting of night bonfires on this calendar date.
What are the most popular rituals of San Juan Night?
During the aforementioned night, a series of rituals can be performed, ranging from playing the guitar under a fig tree or putting three potatoes under your bed.
Next, review the most popular rituals in the peasant oral tradition for this 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 that, 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 predicts the success and abundance.
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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 which there is a love interest. The next day, without looking, you have to take one of the papers. The name you read could be that of your possible 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.
Dish with water and two needles
Another typical ritual of the Night of San Juan in which water is involved is to see the future of a relationship in the needles. To do this, you must place two new needles in a plate of water, separated from each other. You must wait a few minutes and if these come together it means that the person who did the ritual will get married.
Ritual so that there is no lack of money
For this ritual, you must put a small bell, bills, coins and a magnet inside a not very large bag. Then, you must close it and sew it with a white thread and store it in a drawer in your house.
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