John The Eveof St

John, The Eve of St., a Christian festival celebrated during the middle ages on June 23. Fires were lit in the streets, and the younger members of the populace leaped over the flames amidst songs and dancing. Many superstitions have sprung up, the Irish thinking that all souls visited their death-place on this night, and the English that, if anyone sat in a church porch all night he would see the souls of all those of that parish about to die in the following year come and knock at the door.