Traditional Festivals in Lithuania discusses several festivals: Joninės (St. John's Day) is celebrated on June 24th around the summer solstice and has origins in pagan traditions but was later Christianized. Mores festival incorporated pagan traditions like wreath-making and fire-jumping with Christian elements like consecrating herbs. Užgavėnės is a pre-Lenten festival where an effigy of winter is burned and a staged battle symbolizes winter defeating spring. Costumed characters participate in dancing and eating pancakes.

1. Traditional Festivals in Lithuania

2. Joninės - St. John’s Day Midsummer Day - a holiday, celebrated on 24 June, as well as on the night of June 23 to July 24, around the time when the Northern Hemisphere is the longest day and shortest night (summer solstice). The origins of this festival in Lithuania - Rasa Lord. After the baptism of the festival is linked with St. John the Baptist's birthday.

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8. Užgavėnės begins on the night before Ash Wednesday, when an effigy of winter (usually named Morė ) is burnt. A major element of the holiday, meant to symbolize the defeat of winter in the Northern Hemisphere , is a staged battle between Lašininis ("porker"), personifying winter, and Kanapinis ( hempen man"), who personifies spring. Devils, witches, goats, the grim reaper, gypsies , and other joyful and frightening characters appear in costume during the celebrations. The participants and masqueraders dance and eat the traditional dish of the holiday - pancakes with a variety of toppings, since round pancakes are a symbol of the returning sun. The festival is a major event at Rumšiškės park.