Sex, Death, and Bears: What Parts of 'Midsommar' Are True?

Wait, Are the Swedish Traditions in MidsommarMovie Actually...Real?

In the peasant society people—girls mostly—gathered flowers and made flower crowns, the idea being to preserve the magical power of the flowers by hanging the crowns in the house to dry. For young girls, flowers represented a possibility to utilize magical powers to foresee if she would have a husband the next year. [Traditionally, a girl would] put seven flowers under the pillow on Midsummer’s night, because in a dream you would see your husband.

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