The midsummer custom centred on mugwort, gathered at midnight for maximum protective power and worn as a chaplet to ward off enchantment. On Midsummer Eve the bollan bane was pulled and woven. Women wore chaplets of it. Sprigs were pinned to clothes for the Tynwald ceremony the following morning. The herb connected the spiritual protection of the eve to the constitutional ceremony of the day. The sequence mattered: all witches and evil spirits having been disposed of on the previous evening, the great Tynwald Court was held. The Christian saint's name attached to a plant gathered for pre-Christian protective purposes: Bollan-Feaill-Eoin, John's Feast-day wort. The accommodation in a single herb.