Midsummer

The day on which the ceremony takes place (the fifteenth of June) is near midsummer; and we have seen that in Masuren fire is, or used to be, actually made on Midsummer

The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

Jesus would baptise with _fire_ (where the rains of winter and the heat of summer may be referred to); and (2) that the Christian Church in framing its calendar fixed upon what we call Midsummer day as the birthday of John the Baptist, and upon the clay which bears the same relation to the other solstice as the birthday of Christ, as if wishing to illustrate that other remarkable pronouncement of John, thus placed at the point where the days begin to shorten, concerning Jesus, thus placed where the days begin to lengthen, "He must increase but I must decrease"?

The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion John Denham Parsons

Midsummer is fun and wild enough that they seem to have fun with it.

No, “Lot” was not the place you played stickball | clusterflock 2009

Does anyone remember the name of the Indian changeling boy in "Midsummer Night's Dream" or what happens to him?

Shakespeare Help Needed ebenstone 2008

Now that the third act of Midsummer is done, the next item on the agenda is Supergirl 9 ... which should be a lot faster, although the speeches are a lot shorter too.

"What fools these mortals be!" 2008

On the surface Midsummer is the perfect summer read, the ideal beach book, a novel about a group of eccentric friends sharing a mansion for the summer.

Midsummer 2005

We both laughed at the image it conjured - her hulking brothers in Midsummer Night's Eve attire, delicately nibbling at peonies and strange-named blossoms.

Archive 2003-08-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

We both laughed at the image it conjured - her hulking brothers in Midsummer Night's Eve attire, delicately nibbling at peonies and strange-named blossoms.

notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

Christmas falls in Midsummer at the other side of the world, and that so far from being a festive, idle season, it is generally the busiest time of the whole year.

A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871

But some calls her Midsummer, but they all are mista'en;

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 Thomas D'Urfey 1688