St. John’s Eve
The Feast of St. John coincides with the June solstice also referred to as Midsummers. The Christian holy day is fixed at June 24, but, in the old days, festivities were celebrated the night before, on St. John’s Eve. Or at least that is when Marie Laveau celebrated it, she would attract a large crowd of blacks and whites down to Lake Ponchartrain where she performed her healing ceremony or headwashing. In the same spirit,…