VIVA SAO JOAO IN SWINDON UK 2024 🍇🍉☘️ VLOG 8

Feast of Saint John the Baptist ( Birth Aniversary)

While the feast of São João is celebrated across the Catholic world on the same day 24th June, where it is marked by leaping into wells. On this day, groups of people go around singing traditional songs accompanied with instruments like ghumot, mhadalem, and kansallem.
People wear kopels (crowns) made of flowers and a creeper known locally as sanjuachi vaal (transl. creeper of São João). The creeper is found growing in wells during the early monsoons. It also has small red flowers that add to the beauty of the kopel.
men wear other adornments and vestments made from plant and other natural substances probably also a nod to the fact that Saint John wore natural coverings instead of clothing made of fabric.

São João is also a celebration of thanksgiving for newly-weds, and for families with babies born during the preceding year.This ojem is filled with fruits and sweets.ojem (transl. bamboo basket with gifts) gifted to son in law by his mother-in-law . Later it is distributed to villagers.Thereforth , this is meant to signify that a marriage is not just between two families but between two villages.

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