Obligatory custom Midsummer day was a mass bathing: from this day, from the rivers out all evil, so until the Ilyina day it was possible to swim without fear. In addition, the water Midsummer day was considered to have beneficial and magical свойствами.В places, where there was a ban on bathing in the rivers (of the mermaids), bathed in the Holy springs. In the Russian North on the eve of the drowned baths, in which washed and bothered, if we brew collected in this day herbs[9]. And the water, and herbs in Midsummer day legitimacy of magical power, so their use was to give the human vitality and health. Ivanovo brooms used in the course of the year. In this holiday, according to folk beliefs, water can «make friends» with fire, and their Union is considered to be a natural force. The symbol of such a connection are fires on the banks of the rivers, which жглись in the night of Ivan Kupala. Additionally, in a Midsummer night often wondered using wreaths, descended into the river: if a wreath swim, this is the promise of happiness and long life or marriage.
