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LATVIA, PILTINKALNS
21.06.2006
PHOTO: ESPEN RASMUSSEN
The night between the 21st and 22nd of June, the pople of Latvia is celebrating the shortest night of the year, the midsummer. This night, they are turning away from Christianity and worships the pagans Gods.
Some of the people goes into a type of catalepsy. They say the celebration is a way of meditation.