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[@mnjk1558]

Finns were pagans and we were and still are close with the nature. Even vikings feared Finns because they thought that we're sorcerers/witches who can control the weather 😅

[@niuho2052]

Bullshit.

[@Walle7709]

@@niuho2052 Not bs, ofc most "Vikings" didnt fear finns but some did

[@RoniiK04]

@@niuho2052 ur wrong budy :D

[@niilop]

yes we have had snowfall in june, I live in eastern finland. its rare but it happens.

[@janilindqvist3478]

kesä on lyhyt mutta onneksi vähäluminen

[@juhogamer7770]

Juu

[@SamiJuntunen1]

Ahh I remember that one warm day last summer.

[@Julde1]

7:20 J R R Tolkien got many of his ideas for lord of the rings from finnish folklore(Kalevala). These midsummer rituals come from the same source.

[@DR_REDACTED]

Also a finn can almost perfectly understand the elfs (if you listen hard) as all of the words are just corrupted finnish words.

[@Sipu97]

The rituals and folklore are older than Kalevala.

[@shaairah]

Midsummer spells are a big deal especially for little and young girls. We always used to do them when I was younger. With mirrors and candles; gathering 7 kinds of plants at a crossroad naked at midnight (hellish with mosquitoes!) that you then put under your pillow when you went to bed in hope of seeing your true love, sauna spells, lake spells, sacrificing something to the forest and lake spirits... we once sacrificed my grandma's port to an ancient tree - granny wasn't happy about that :D

[@doomtastic3635]

These spells are very familiar because im only boy in close relatives😂

[@GolfinKunnanMestari]

I saw two girls picking flowers on Juhannus evening, i just asked them "what are you doing, im here already" and i got other girls number, i meet her tomorrow :D

[@tiuhtiviuhti7998]

Midsummer has been celebrated in Finland thousands of years, way before Swedish colonisation or Christianity. The bonfires were meant to repel evil spirits, same with making a lot of noise. Drinking lots of alcohol was related to good harvest. Later the church tried to make Juhannus a Christian holiday. They managed to change the name but not the traditions. Even without the knowledge of that history every Finn is very aware of bonfires, excessive drinking and ruckus. Making love spells still lives strong in the tradition too. All in all, we are a Christian country but if you scratch little at the surface, you will find that the main holidays like the midsummer and 1st of May (spring, vappu) or the midwinter (days start to get longer) all have strong pagan roots and traditions. Also everybody knows about sauna elf’s or home elf’s. It’s also very common to do all sorts of love spells in a bachelorette parties. Just for fun of course. I also had a quite a few in mine for fertility and happy marriage and then I got married in a church 😂.

[@yorkaturr]

Finland was the last country in Europe to convert to Christianity. Some parts of Eastern Finland were practicing traditional folk beliefs well into the 1800s. The clergy originally wanted to ban Midsummer in Finland because it's purely a pagan holiday with no Christian traditions whatsoever, but when they failed, they renamed it Juhannus after John the Baptist and moved on.

[@Janneh8]

No it wasn't. Lithuania was the last, greetings from Finland.

[@ilmarisarjakoski7166]

Karjala region was still very pagan atleast until the days of my grandmother’s youth even though it was officially Christian for centuries

[@GolfinKunnanMestari]

Christianity in Finland was forced with a sword.

[@dangerousalphabets5267]

Midsummer celebrations were forbidden by law somewhere around the 16th century. The first mention of a fine is from 1554 (or something similar). The last mention of a celebration named Ukon vakka is from the late 1900's. Ukon vakka was the original celebration. There were special drinks (ale usually) that were drunk in hope of a better harvest. Ukko is the name of the Finnish weather god.

[@janijousmaki7256]

My old neighbor told me about this cool midsummer spell So at the late night you take a rowing boat to the middle of the lake and stand up and look to the shore you left from where you can see you future widow

[@shaairah]

ROTFL!

[@Pukamafin]

only if you're married

[@NimuelNightfire]

Old version of Juhannus-Spell: Gather 7 different flowers from meadow and put them under your pillow and you will dream of your future husband. New version: Gather 7 empty long drink cans people has left behind during their celebrations, put them under your bed and you will get 1.05 € as a pledge when you return them to the store.

[@hedaheda1609]

According to our tradition, you should not go to sleep at all on Midsummer night. Must be awake from sunset to sunrise. Bonfires are lit, women and girls in wreaths of flowers, men and boys are given wreaths of oak leaves. The house and the yard must be well-kept, the rooms must also be decorated with field flowers and birch trees. The traditional dish is Midsummer cheese, little pies and beer, but nowadays, of course, the menu is richer. People gather to celebrate, sing, play, eat and drink too, yes.. One of the rituals is the search for a fern flower (you have to go into the forest at midnight, alone, if you endure and don't be afraid, then you will get this mythical flower and supernatural abilities), nowadays this concept has become a euphemism for the mischief of young people in a bit different context. There's still jumping over the bonfire. If a couple lets go of their joined hands while jumping, this is not a good sign for the relationship. And if the waters are suitable, then at dawn people go swimming naked. A tradition has developed in one city - the naked race. The brave run naked in a pack across the bridge. All traditions are related to receiving the blessing of water, fire and nature in general.

[@JustMarel]

​@@hedaheda1609 'Must be awake from sunset to sunrise' Just wondering, isn't the whole point of Midsummer and nightless night about how the sun does not set?

[@hedaheda1609]

@@JustMarel In Finland, yes. We are a bit further south. Here, the sun sets on Solstice night at 22.22 and rises at 4.29. Depending on the weather and the phase of the moon, the night can be bright, but there are also years when it gets dark for a few hours.

[@lucone2937]

Basically "juhannus" (St. John's Day) and "joulu" (Christmas) are based on ancient traditions about summer solstice (the longest day of the year) and winter solstice (the shortest day of the year) a long before Christianity adopted to them from Roman and Germanic Pagans. In a modern secular society they are for the most of the people just nice annual festivals and a good reason to celebrate with family and friends including special kind of seasonal food.

[@Silveirias]

A lot of Finnish Christmas traditions were also adapted from kekri (harvest festival/new year), which used to be a much bigger deal than Christmas was.

[@supremegreaser2399]

I live in Järvenpää, which is relatively close to Helsinki and some years back we did in-fact have snowfall in June :) This is by no means common though.

[@EeroKuvala]

You should check White night magic -Finland video! It's english and tells something about finnish mid summer magic

[@NinaRanne]

Hi Dwayne, It's always a pleasure to listen to you. Midsummer in the cities is quite peaceful. A large number of people have gone to the countryside and summer cottages, where they spend time with friends or family. We eat well, especially fish and new harvest potatoes, strawberries and vegetables. The new growing season has started after a long winter. Sauna, swimming in the sea or lake, Midsummer bonfires (if you can light them. Too dry terrain does not allow open fires, because then there is a risk of forest fires). Alcohol is also consumed, but most people still drink moderately. The purpose is to enjoy the longest day of the year, which is almost endless. In the South there are only a few hours of twilight and in the North the sun does not set at all. It's often really warm and good weather, but I've also woken up to snowfall on Midsummer morning. People also drown on Midsummer. This year, five people. Often the reason is an attack of illness, as a hot sauna and cool water can be dangerous for some. However, someone who fell off a boat while drunk or swam too far can still be included among the drowned. Welcome to Finland. You have a lot of followers here and I'm sure one of them will offer you a summer cottage vacation for a few days. Because that's where we've run away to in the summer, away from the cities.

[@SK-nw4ig]

Haha, yes we have had snow, slush and hale in Juhannus. Not usually, but has happened so i can remember couple of times. Few years back hail was so hard i remmeber putting a small piece of tin on my salmon as i was grilling it on fire outside and had to run in myself :D We do do spells on Juhannus! Still, even as an adult.

[@DK_1983]

Wait wait.... Are we talking like... inside your head almost like a prayer sort of "spell" .... or like straight up Harry Potter!? "Getoutus Sovietus!" ?

[@SK-nw4ig]

@@DK_1983 We are talking about gathering certain amount of certain flowers, saying certain words, circeling around certain places a certain amount of times etc, much like he mentioned in the video. Well known juhannus spells in Finland :)

[@DK_1983]

@@SK-nw4ig Oh I see... kinda chill magic :D Aight :)

[@janemiettinen5176]

We had somewhat similar incident at our lakehouse maybe a decade ago, it was very hot, hail came from nowhere and our cats (+ hammocks & other non-water repellent gear) got caught in it! I watched the shotgun pellet sized ice particles jump up from roof of our car about meter high, peonies lost all petals, violets got violated and both cats stayed indoors for a good while afterwards, first time for these city kitties experiencing anything like this.. About half of the sky was perfectly clear, no rain before it, it just was on like someone flipped a switch! Ended as abruptly too. We are so lucky to have tiny hails here, the American version is freaky.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

In 2014 it snowed in Midsummer as south as in Hämeenlinna, which is around 100 km north from Helsinki. Not only is Midsummer time for love spells, but also a popular day for weddings: "White Night Magic - FINLAND". Finns have their own mythology and national epic: "The Hammer of Ukko - Trailer #1" and "From Kalevala to Middle-Earth: Tolkien's love for Finland's MYTHS!". More on Finnish paganism and sorcery: "Finnish Sorcery Traditions", "Spirit(s) of the Sauna: Seen and Unseen Beings in Finnish Folklore" and "Karelian Magic - 1920". Humppa is related to jazz and fast foxtrot: "Yölintu - Jätkän humppa ( Las Palmas Joensuu )". And here's how you dance to it, because obviously now you want to: "Liperin lava 08 humpan SM-finaali".

[@jemleye]

The video kinda glossed over it, but while Swedes have the silly poles to dance around, Finns tend to build as big bonfires as possible (often but not always putting a whole ass wooden boat/ship into them) and light them up during the "darker" hours of the "night" and gather to watch. When I was little we'd go to our grandparents' summer cottage for most midsummers and then row for like 5 km on a boat to watch a bonfire from the lake. Was cool, tho as a kid a bit boring/tiring.

[@valtterimyllymaki7943]

And if the neighbours have a bigger bonfire than yours it really pisses you off 😅

[@jorezaqqer3510]

You can ask Mel Gibson If he likes Finland's juhannus. Hes here right now with hes family celebrating our midsummer! 😄

[@js0988]

Also try loimu lohi which flame broiled salmon, it's indescribable how good it is. It's insane.

[@vandalfinnicus1507]

Swedes inherited the festival from their ancestors, the Goths, who after converting to Christianity, still held some pagan culture (like everyone who went through that transition), and for Finns, it is similar, though going back much farther into stone age, and the iron age, culture.

[@ilmarisarjakoski7166]

On midsummer almost everyone has a holiday. We go preferably to the mökki or atleast somewhere into nature, go to sauna, do spells, bonfires, feast, get wasted and stay up until the morning

[@MrBern91]

It looks to me like 'humppa' is more about the gathering rather than a specific dance. We've got essentially the same thing in Sweden which is called "logen" it literally translates into "the dance" and is of old swedish origins. What it actually is, is that someone owns a barn or something, and they invite every person in the neighbourhood over for dancing all night. And it doesn't matter who you're dancing with or what your dance is, everybody is welcome to dance just as they see fit.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

Humppa is also music genre example this kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYq0hZV6o5eIbNUsi=TbgLmZhtrtTOdg86

[@Winnerfeel]

Sounds good tradition 🥰 How about alcohol, does it belong in Swedish Midsummer celebration ? Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮🫶🏼🇸🇪

[@MrBern91]

@@Winnerfeel Oh yes, yes it does. xD As a matter of fact it was on midsummer I was legit drunk for the first time at 13 or 14yo. xD

[@Sipu97]

Humppa is a type of dance music. But it can also refer to the act of dancing

[@SuperDalton72]

Sweden and finnland is similar but two totaly diffrent experiens..The locations in the countrys can variate in traditions. And between generations.

[@Elyza404]

We spent juhannus in my parents lakeside farm where we had about 20 people staying. We ate salmon soup, grilled cheese, lamb and pork with veggies, strawberry pavlova etc. We would swim sauna and enjoy the jacuzzi every evening until the morning hours. The vihta was ofcourse made for sauna. We also had the bonfire, played mölkky petanque and other cottage games and went rowing for a bit. We also made flower crowns and chilled in the nice weather.

[@-Agis-]

Eating, drinking and feeling like absolute trash when Sunday came about 😅 ..due to the somewhat strong emphasis on the drinking part.

[@Kardinaalilintu]

For middsummer (Juhannus) we went to my friends family summer house. A very traditional and cool place at a shore of a lake in a middle of a forest. The newest building is about 100 years old and the oldest is almost 300 years old. No running water and electricity is limited to what they gather via solar panels. We played a lot of board games, ate awesome food, swam in the lake and went to sauna every day (a wood warmed smoke sauna). The other one of our single friends did a Juhannus spell to dream of her future husband (collect 7 different flowers, jump over 7 different fences with the flowers, put the flowers under your pillow at midnight and don't speak a word before you've slept till the next morning.) Didn't work, but they had fun.

[@Make573]

Snow on june? Yes, but THANK THE GOD not very often, and only on the most northest parts of Finland we have a few days with snow ON JUNE. Not snow fall, at least not during daytime and only with coverige of 2cm/1nch thickness. And yes, i do remeber one MIDSUMMER SUNSETLESS DAY like this, during 30 years of my life, in my homecity, Rovaniemi.

[@Murvelhund]

I live in the middle of Sweden and I've had midsummers when I've wished I'd chosen long johns over summer clothes because it was freezing and snowing.

[@o0131]

juhannus in kalajoki is a something everyone has to experience :D

[@Naakkasyd]

Juhannus was on saturday. There's never snow at summer☃️ Those spells is like you run naked around sauna or you pick seven different flovers and put them under your pillow. You can throw your shoe to the roof and there's lots of more spells.😂👌

[@janilindqvist3478]

yea. thanks 1955 change that it isn't when it is supposed to be. i just returned from estonia as we were thinking of enjoining jaani in there. but totally forgot that they have it actually properly at st.johns day :D

[@Sipu97]

Have you not heard of juhannushiihdot ie. midsummer skiing? That happens every year in the north. Snowfall is rare but it happens.

[@Aurinkohelmi]

We in Finland have in general same holidays than Sweden as we were so long same country, but the ways to celebrate do differ.

[@jennymalmiola324]

One year it was +9C both at the xmas and the midsummer. And one midsummer we had a hail storm. I live in Helsinki. But we Finns just laugh at these things. As long as we have sauna and barbeque we are fine.

[@Turinnn1]

Summer is the best day of the year.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

I was told by people in Åland that it was (or perhaps still is) common to get shit faced and go out with a small sailing boat and hunt for birds. Not necessarily a Midsummer thing though, more of a Weekend party thing during all of the summer

[@dukeaccent]

We used to go out dancing and watch a bonfire when I was a kid but now for a few years it has become a tradition in my family to just go with my parents to my aunt's place and drink coffee and then drive around with them. It's actually quite nice to just listen to the old folks reminisce while driving on empty roads late at night.

[@nina-kitty6573]

Humpa is finnish folkish music, its reminds of tango.. Younger doesnt dance it anymore, but lisen at humpa at juhannus, is something they can do after sauna and couple Lonkero..

[@kirstimakela9086]

you are mistaken, young people do dance humppa nowadays-

[@thrillyria]

Humppa indeed is a type of folk dance and music. Well today more associated with a style of music than one specific dance but it still is a dance style. It's even a saying in Finland to "go to humppa" (lähteä humpalle) when you go to dance or to a party. We still have those old wooden dance halls people use to go gather to dance to live music and they're quite popular all summer all over the country. Some are like a century old or even older gathering places.

[@thrillyria]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humppa

[@harjad9546]

Swedish midsommar is also a great experience but when it comes to pagan traditions, I'd say we have preserved more.

[@essimanni3019]

Here in the part of Finland where I come from, it was 30 degrees today

[@Floar]

It sometimes rains "snow" in june in finland but it doesn't stay on the ground. That snowman picture was made out of hail and sleet

[@Make573]

And true, here in north, i currently living Oulu, the snow melts completely only around late April, beginnings of May.

[@Apache0175]

It's around 25C in Stockholm today and are supposed to be up to 28C - 30C in the coming days

[@ljooni]

.. and you're a horrible goose.

[@Winnerfeel]

Enjoy the summer 🇸🇪💛💙🤍🇫🇮 that’s what we do here in Finland too

[@Superbiist]

You really should look at the finnish Kalevala. Would explain a lot, about where all these holidays and such comes from. If I may suggest a channel: Anttimation. Alot of animated content about us finns, from the past.

[@vonkku]

I spent my Juhannus with Finnish barbeque and drunk parents xD

[@bloodgoat666]

June -82 was the coldest recorded June ever in Finland. A small child aged 2 or 3 got lost woods near his/hers backyard and died out of hypothermia. There was, and still can be sub zero temperatures during the nights especially in the Lapland, but basically everywhere in Finland. Last time it snowed on June, was 17.6.2014 in Hämeenlinna, it's south from the Middle-Finland.

[@bloodgoat666]

And the big cities are completely ghost towns during juhannus. There's only few people who stay in the cities, but basically everything is closed. No public transportation, taxis are hard to find, and only few pubs are open. Pretty much that's it. People tend to travel to festivals, rent a summer house or go to some friend's or relative's summer house to spend juhannus. Away from the cities.

[@013racing]

It's literally MAYBE a shortened work day on friday, but legit most people are MAYBE at work in thursday morning and then head off to the "mökki" (the cottage), the friday is a dead day. And also Juhannus marks the beginning of most vacations, most companies run from there on for over a month on semi-passive mode :D :D

[@AHVENAN]

For reference, I live at about the same latitude as Helsinki Me personally have never experienced snow on Midsummer, but I have experienced it in june, I do not remember what year this was, but I remember it was the 9th of june and i woke up in the morning and everything was comppletely covered in snow, it's the first and hopefully only time I have driven a snowplow in the morning and done lawnmowing in the afternoon, because by noon everything had melted away

[@doomiesama4741]

I lived in southern Finland as kid and there was on midsummer in the early 2000s that we had snow.

[@blissfull_ignorance8454]

Finland was christianized relatively late, compared to other parts of Europe. Even after Christianity became the dominant religion, many pre-Christian folk traditions survived in "christianized" forms.

[@timokoj]

Humppa:react band called eläkeläiset.they play humppa ,mostlyvhunppa versiona of pop or rock songs

[@penaarja]

More than 20c even northern Finland.

[@juneygloomey]

I once went on a vacation in Turkey and when I came back it was snowing in Finland. In late June.

[@Naamariful]

In 2014, Midsummer was colder than Christmas 2013. Then you could put on quite a lot of clothes outside.

[@Kalevi-zd1no]

There's sometimes snowing during summer. It's not so uncommon. Ancient traditions go along drinkinking, merrymaking and general celebrationg of summer. There are plenty of spells of fertifility going with summer

[@LeCzar]

When i was a kid in a summercamp we had snowfall and the day before was like +25 degrees

[@mariano7654]

Depends on whether you want to dance around the pole (Sweden) or whether you want to dance or not more freely and whether you like bonfire (Finland) where you should spend the Middummers. And also whether you like the selebration to be focusing on daytime (Sweden) or towards the evening (Fknland).

[@mikkorenvall428]

Originally Midsummers is 24.-25. June, but today it's desided by law that MIdsummer is celebrated on friday and saturday that appears between 20. and 26. of June. And Humppa is finnish name for Foxtrot...

[@Silveirias]

And even more originally, likely the summer solstice.

[@lembnic]

5 people drowned this year.

[@kallekas8551]

Must have been cool weather then.🤣 Greetings from Australia t. Kalle.🦘

[@konsta6367]

​@@kallekas8551 Siemailikko juhannuksen kunniaks veebeetä?

[@kallekas8551]

@@konsta6367 🤣Sä oot perkeleen legenda!! Totta fakin kai!!!🤣👍🍺Ok…mä oon rehellinen mies…Tuuhiis Nyytä!👌

[@Tedger]

Only 5... near 20 when good weather.

[@konsta6367]

@@kallekas8551 Lesgouuu. Te bojs ar bäk in taun

[@Gittas-tube]

👩🏼‍🌾🏞️🌅🇫🇮 Hello Dwayne! Those old pagan 'rituals' are obviously only for fun these days.

[@laamala99]

All of this is some traditional old school stuff that i didnt even know. We just go to the sauna and grill food and drink alot

[@rokotterekt]

had a bbq at my parents on Juhannus and visited my 95 year old grandad ☺usually Juhannus is just another reason to get pissed drunk lol, sadly there are drownings every single year. Humppa music is like old days music for dancing, people still love to listen to those and dance around! if you ever have a chance to experience a finnish Juhannus, you should 😄 Spells are a funny way to "find the love of your life", like seeing the face of your love in the fire or something, lol, but i have never tried those kind of spells. Sadly now after Juhannus the days are getting shorter and we are closer to fall 🥺

[@OldieBugger]

The temperatures here in South Finland, they might be above 25 degrees (C, ofc) during the day, but in the night it might go down to 10 degrees or even less! (I checked, my thermometer says it,s 12 degrees C right now (2 am)). In the North, well... it varies just as the weather in Finland varies, a lot.

[@Losqq]

Yea we do spells and rituals in a middle of forest by lake. Sometimes it includes squirrels and bears.

[@HanneleKorpela53]

Yes, snow, heavy rain, cold, haistone happens now and then. Of course we hope that's not the case. Juhannus 2024 was warm and sunny, during 21.06-22.06.

[@MrBanaanipommi]

Snowfall in june and around juhannus day, yes, experienced that few times... even if few days ago it was like more than +20c, then in juhannus... its literally snowing

[@jounilojander8821]

9.6.1982 morning they messured how much daybefore falled so its record day because it was several cm:s! And Lapland is it's own weather same as Eastern Finland!

[@Necrotechian]

coldest since 1981 on Juhannus day in Helsinki has been 6.3 Celsius.... and in the whole country the coldest temperature was 0.7 Celsius... regrad to drowning.... this year was quite good since only 5 drowned as far as i saw in the news.

[@jessepylvalainen2288]

2014 we were waiting for our first born son and it was snowing in Juhannus

[@Kenruli]

There has been snow in june but theres also been no snow in January

[@samutraifin]

We acually had some "snow" here this june few weeks ago. And it was in south of finland

[@Urbankin]

Original pagan holiday for high god Ukko (zeus like entity) that was slappeb with christian sticker of Johb the Baptist. They tried to ban worshiping of Ukko but failed and took the long road of re-branding. And yes, it snowed in Juhannus few years back in southern Finland as well.

[@Silveirias]

Addition to above: Ukko ("old man") is the god of thunder, weather overall, and agriculture (hence the drinking for a good harvest).

[@jarnom85]

It was Warm on Midsnummer.

[@EneriGiilaan]

Midsummer in Helsinki 1987 (maybe 86?) in Seurasaari - temperature around 0 C with sleet/snow.

[@juniusluriuscatalus6606]

Finnish Juhannus: Death by drowning whilst drunk (peeing from boat, probably); destroying liver; eating too much and not that healthy,;acting stupid; losing several days (related to alcohol)... Yeah, there's been snowfall in June, quite some times. Quite often it's not that hot and sunny, but it's not common. And welcome, I'd recommend July / August so you won't freeze to death. :P Humppa is either extremely enjoyable form of dancing or extremely embarrassing cultural tradition. Your choice, nobody really cares anymore. :) Juhannustaika is an ancient relic and mostly just fun if anything at all. Oh, and I love how you actually do try to pronounce Juhannus correctly and you do it so effortlessly. Not flawless, but absolutely good job! Yep, guessing (and speculating) the number of drowned people in Juhannus is a tradition, but we are trying to get it to zero.

[@StPaul76]

I personally carry the Thundergod's hammers around my neck and worship the tempest so go figure.. And I know I'm not alone.. ;D

[@georglaakso]

Yes it has been snowing many times during june.

[@Nipa96M]

Yes, we have had snow during summer. Even in southern Finland.

[@sallasundell4351]

What?? You've heard of Sweden's summer nights, but you haven't heard of Finland's midnight summer nights/bright nights? How is it possible? This is the first time I hear that someone hasn't heard of Finnish midsummer nights😳. Greeti gs from Finland🇫🇮. And yes here have been raining snow in Juhannus. Many times. Oh btw that band, its Turmion Kätilöt, song i called Pyhä maa Absolutely great band😍🥰! "Jalkojemme alla Pyhä maa!" Btw, Russia allso celebration this midnight summer but diffrent day/month then Finland.

[@sariweckroth1759]

Oh yes, it has been snow a few times in june. In my childhood, and I remember well midsummer 2014 when it snowed.

[@OldieBugger]

A warning: The midsummer feast in Finland can get rowdy. At least, don't drink as the Finns do. It may be disasterious to your health.

[@mattilindstrom]

Snowfall in the June, I remember three instances. Those were decades ago, but the late one one was after June 15th. Juhannus fun is of course eating good and drinking good. The betting fun we've had at my university and work was the one of how many people drown drunk on Juhannus. The usual bet lately was 10 eur, and the person getting closest got it all, or if there was a n-way draw the pot was divided. The usual number of drowned depended on the weather, and was about 6.

[@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke]

Gathering together with friends or family and relatives, preferably at summer cottage, doing some barbeque and going to sauna, and drinking alcohol, are probably the biggest rituals for midsummer. There's other stuff too, but it relly does not feel like a midsummer if you don't get at least two or three of these down.

[@ricmatify687]

Midsummer Eve in Sweden was the 21st of June, last Friday.

[@OldieBugger]

Hey, next to nobody remembers anything about Finnish midsummer. There's just that much drinking. But many girls might remember, after 9 months...

[@sshortcuts3994]

We have definately had snow in june

[@thejjzz]

I have experienced snowfall in june in Helsinki region maybe 10 years ago.

[@Mypfpisacoolduck]

in sweden the midsommar was so warm and cold, in the shadow it was cold and the sun burning

[@kirstihallsten3183]

We eat with the family in a summer cottage 😊

[@petra9923]

Ome year it was the same temperature on midsummer as it was on christmas eve 😬

[@StPaul76]

If you are a sucker for salmon You, my British friend, would probably not hesitate to kill for Kuha and Siika.. :D My aunt in Savonia promised me again to put some fresh kuha aside for me.. with seasons potatoes and cream&butter mushroom sauce.. :D

[@Yavanna79]

Although for some Finns, this (like many other holidays) is a national celebration of getting drunk and fooling around. Okay, there are nice traditions etc, but so many people would rather get drunk, fool around and wake up in a jail. Or go boating drunk, without a lifejacket and drown.

[@knightofthenight4913]

i am now midway through the video---- spells, rituals. YEAS- we do juhannus taikoja, the midsummer spells. im now turning 43, i did the spells as a kid. my number one wish for future ocupation as an adult was a witch when i was a tiny girl, i would bore my cousin with doing potions and trick her playing witch for hours. many people dont realise when they move here how paganistic, atheistic or new wave occultistic country this really is. we do have loads of xtians and we mostly get along just fine with anyone with any religious beliefs, we just hope that people can apprechiate that talking about religion or looking down at someone elses religion etc. is concidered a social faux paux here. i've worked with immigrants and most of them are willing to accept that easilly, even the fact that black metal (whitch dont hide around the bushes) is really popular here, even among the elderly people- not even kidding. we were secretly doing oure animalistic rituals here, when the swedes or the russian church werent paying attention. we've had traditionally people here from bitt all over before the latter years- so we like to get along and respect other peoples privacy and allso right to live according own beliefs- as long as you get along.

[@javel114]

Let's just say some are more into paganism than others, but sure there are some pagan like stuff, like the bonfires. It's just a big day, because our winter is intense, our summer has to be too!

[@MrPelzi91]

no no snowfall in Juhannus is common thing everywhere in Finland

[@SimoExMachina2]

One Juhannus spell that I remember is that if a young maiden collects 7 different flowers and puts them under her pillow on Juhannus Eve, then the following night she will dream about her future husband.

[@somebody2468]

I was at summer cottage, I drunk 3 days and had sauna 3 nights.

[@tuukka3580]

2017 1st of june came snowfall and the ground is white. Never experienced it on midsummers eve tho.

[@Finkele1]

To be honest, not in Tampere region no snow but even worse weather. Rain and 10C

[@GolfinKunnanMestari]

Actually Juhannus is start of the summer, not the midsummer party, summer starts offially 20.6 in northern parts of the world and ends 22.9, so almost 3 months of summer left :)

[@w33dzyplaysgames63]

We had snow in june like 10 years ago. About 2014 or 2015. But like just enough for the streets to get white for 1 day :D

[@w33dzyplaysgames63]

And i live in southern Finland in a small village

[@w33dzyplaysgames63]

I am commeting by the video going :D. Spells and rituals are our past and the are done somewhat often. Not by everybody but some people do them. Mainly in village towns. For example my wife was a maid of honor like 2 weeks ago just before midsummer. They did some bridal traditions, like smashing the past away from the bride with birch leaves and leaving flower pedals out of the sauna to lead the bride in to the future. Also yellow flowers from the field we own to put under her blanket to see dreams of her future husband. ( Last one is more of a midsummer spell for singels but I was told it did the trick for the bride also) :)

[@AadaHartikka-kh4yo]

Really the next day after Juhannus on the news after the weather they tell how many people drowned in Juhannus

[@Zinetha]

Finns used to be pagans before the country was Christianized and people never really got rid of their pagan ways, they just added the Christian ways on top of the paganism and did both (i.e. Finns were already polytheistic, so adding one more god to the roster was rather easy). Most of the pagan rituals have died out, but there's some things left still. Like, some people still do juhannus spells, we still have sauna tonttus (gnome-like creatures) as sauna decor because people used to believe those were a thing. Roots of juhannus itself are in summer solstice. Some towns still have a nuuttipukki tradition, some have rejuvinated an old holiday called kekri, etc. There are also neo-pagan religious groups who practise old Finnish pagan religions we had before Christianity.

[@Silveirias]

Tonttu's come from Scandinavia. Saunatonttu is also known as sauna(n)haltija.

[@Zinetha]

@@Silveirias I know, I am Finnish.

[@Silveirias]

@@Zinetha Me, too. But you did not mention haltija's which are more native to Finland than tonttu's are. Hence my comment to add some further information.