Midsummer’s Day is celebrated on the 24th of June, just like St John’s Day.

Folklore says that the eve of Midsummer and St John is one of the most dangerous nights of the year, when witches are out gathering herbs and making spells.

One example is a spell to find your destined lover. At midnight, gather hempseed and walk around a church seven times clockwise, and say:

“Hempseed I sow, hempseed I mow,
Let him that is my true love come after me and mow.”

This shall cause a vision of your true love to appear, if you then dare to glance over your left shoulder…

Image: Lorimer, John Henry (1905). Midsummer’s Eve: A Reverence to Roses. Available HERE.

Source: Kightly, Charles (1987). The Perpetual Almanack of Folklore.