KLIDON is a custom dating from the centuries-old Greek tradition. It is the combination of random and incoherent words spoken during divination that reveal to unmarried girls the identity of their future mate .
In Mykonos, according to the custom, unmarried girls gather at a house and one of them is responsible to bring from the well the “water of silence”. She returns “silent” with a full container and the girls throw into it a personal object called the “rizikari”. The container is covered and left in the open air, to be “seen” by the stars! The girls go to sleep and will dream the one that they will marry.
One the same day, bonfires are lit in the main squares of the villages and residents jump over them, to exorcize the evil spirit…