Midsummer Eve

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the evening preceding Midsummer Day: formerly believed to be a time when witches and other supernatural beings caused widespread mischief.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

Also called Midsummer Night, St. John's Eve, St. John's Night.

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

Both have different venues in cities across the country on Christmas Eve (and in some cases, Christmas night, too).
The Craziest Date Night for Single Jews, Where Mistletoe Is Ditched for Shots|Emily Shire|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Liu was nearing the 20th anniversary of his arrival in America, having landed from China on Christmas Eve, 1994, at the age of 12.
In The Shadow of Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Throughout Christmas eve and day, the world is monitoring with bated breath.
Sweden’s Burning Christmas Goat|Nina Strochlic|December 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Many will simply stay away from crowds and stay home this Christmas Eve, which could be a very silent night indeed.
France’s Wave of Crazy-Terror Christmas Attacks|Christopher Dickey|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

So here, for your Christmas Eve pleasure, are 20 of my favorites, 10 from the ecclesiastical division and 10 secular.
Yes, I Like Christmas Music. Stop Laughing.|Michael Tomasky|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Eve, too, lovely as she is, seems to bear no likelihood of resemblance to Milton's superb mother of mankind.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
At midsummer was to be a fete in the Saboba village, and the San Bernardino priest would come there.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
And when cool silence came again, Hugh begged that the two would have their Christmas Eve dinner with him, at his hotel.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
He makes love to her, just because it is the nature of a lusty son of Adam to make love to a pretty daughter of Eve.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
If God put a "will" on Adam's back, and the will followed the beckoning finger of Eve, whose fault was that?
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford