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Midsummer Night - Slavic feast associated with the summer solstice the Sun, celebrated during the shortest night of the year, which accounts for approximately 21-22 June. In Anglo-Saxon countries under the name of Midsummer, the Germanic Mittsommerfest. In Poland, the Catholic Church, unable to eradicate the customs, beliefs derived from the Slavic, the annual celebration of pagan Sobotka, attempted to assimilate the holidays with Christian rituals (hence the later eve of St. Jana - commonly called a midsummer night and having the many borrowings from earlier holidays - celebrated on the night of 23 to 24 June).

In the south, Polish, Podkarpackie and Silesia ceremony of a similar nature is called Sobotka or sobótkami, Warmia and Mazury palinocką. Name Midsummer Night, KUPALNOCKA became established in the tradition of Mazovia and Podlasie.

Feast of fire, water, sun and moon, harvest, fertility, joy and love, widely celebrated in areas inhabited by Slavic peoples, but also of a similar nature in areas inhabited by peoples of the Baltic, Germanic and Celtic, as well as the part of the peoples coming from Finno-Ugric peoples, for example. Finns (in Finland is one of the most important holidays in the calendar) and Estonians. In Latvia, under the name of LIGO is a public holiday, and after independence, 23 and 24 June became public holidays. Also in Lithuania June 24, since 2005, is a day off from work.
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This feast is often compared to Valentine's Day [2]. However, the Western Valentine's Day is celebrated on February 14th has nothing to do with Slavic tradition