{"id":6357,"date":"2009-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/2009\/06\/23\/midsummers-night\/"},"modified":"2009-06-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T00:00:00","slug":"midsummers-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=6357","title":{"rendered":"Midsummers night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--single.php--><\/p>\n<p><!--loop-->\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t        <!--navigation--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!--post title--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace2\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p><!--content with more link--><\/p>\n<p>Since it is the day of the year with the shortest night, but a night filled with superstition about witches, I\u00b4ll post a picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/which-witch\/\">\u201cWhich witch\u201d.<\/a> The tradition in Norway is to celebrate this evening by making big bon-fires. In Denmark, they also take the time to make a life-size, human figure posing as a witch, and puts \u201cher\u201d at the top of the bonfire, to \u201cget rid of all evil\u201d, I suppose. For more info on witches, read <a href=\"http:\/\/ansatte.uit.no\/rha003\/hekser.html\">here.&amp;nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ansatte.uit.no\/rha003\/hekseprosesser.html\">This is a link-site<\/a> with both English and Norwegian sites about witches, and the history and myths surrounding them.<\/p>\n<p>The tale says it was on this night that all the witches would gather on certain, sacred mountains for their ritual celebrations with the devil. Blocksberg, in Germany, is probably the most well-known mountain like this. In Norway, we have L\u00f8vstakken in Bergen.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if Norwegians don\u00b4t really believe in witches anymore, we still keep the tradition of the bon-fire. But now it is more for barbeque-purposes.&amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2650\" title=\"ww-bal1-399x60011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/ww-bal1-399x60011.jpg\" alt=\"ww-bal1-399x60011\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" =\"http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ww-bal1-399x60011.jpg 399w, http:\/\/www.spindelmaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ww-bal1-399x60011-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\"><\/p>\n<p>This fire was made by Axel, my special-effects-phyro-technician-man, for the outdoor performance of \u201cWhich witch\u201d. It is a real fire with real flames, and every night the actor\/singer who played the role as Maria Vitoria, was thrown into the fire, and burned to death while the ensemble was singing \u201cBurn the witches! Laudate Domino! Hallelujah! Trust in your God!\u201d. (I highly recommend getting your hands on a CD, to listen to the music of this rock-opera\/ musical, written by Benedicte Adrian and Ingrid Bj\u00f8rnov.)<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the audience it is a chilling experience. But for Axel and Maria Vittoria, this is where the special effects come in. She has to die every night, so she needs to survive the flames. I\u00b4m not gonna tell you how they did it, just that it was spectacular and scary and beautiful and more scary! In front you see the executioner.<\/p>\n<p>                       <!--for paginate posts--><\/p>\n<div class=\"postspace\">\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!--all options over and out--><\/p>\n<p>\t<!--include comments template--><\/p>\n<p><!-- You can start editing here. --><\/p>\n<p>        <!--do not delete--><\/p>\n<p><!--single.php end--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it is the day of the year with the shortest night, but a night filled with superstition about witches, I\u00b4ll post<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/?p=6357\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spindelmaker.bluesystems.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}