Klidonas
24 June 2026 — Hush… the water is silent. Leap the fire and make a wish for love!
Klidonas is a Greek folk custom tied to 24 June, the birthday of Saint John the Baptist. The name comes from a Greek word for an omen or sign. Traditionally, young women fill a vessel with “silent water”, drawn without a word, and place personal items in it, leaving it under the open sky overnight. The next day the items are taken out one by one while rhyming couplets are recited, hinting at who one's future partner may be. Young people leap over bonfires, in which the May wreaths hung on doors since 1 May are burned. The date falls just after the summer solstice, when the days are among the longest of the year and the nights among the shortest. Similar fires and divination customs exist in Bulgaria's Enyovden and across Europe around Midsummer and St John's Day, making Klidonas part of a wider family of midsummer traditions.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver star figure of a young maiden drawn from pale points of light and thin lines, like a constellation drifting across the sky
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