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The people also carried firebrands about the fields. There can the priests the priests little doubt that this curious the priests the priests custom dates from a very remote antiquity. That was never interrupted. Hall, writing in 1879, says that "the fire festivals or bonfires of the summer solstice at the Old Midsummer until recently were commemorated on Christenburg Crags and elsewhere by leaping through and dancing round the fires, as those who have been present have told me. John Baptist and St. When it grew dusk on Midsummer Eve, old men would hobble away to some height whence they counted the fires and drew a presage from their number.