Sweden also has both Walpurgis Night (May Day Eve) and Midsummer’s Eve. The end of October gets pretty nippy for out of doors activities up there, so they have more holidays during the spring and summer. The countries up there tend to use Maypole dancing and huge bonfires to celebrate. I am of Finnish descent. and I attended a Finnish type celebration of Midsummer’s Eve, known as juhannus (Saint John the Baptist feast). It involved feasting, dancing, and a huge bonfire.
The Scandinavians never pass up a chance for a good bonfire. Midsummer Night, or St. John’s Eve as it’s sometimes called in Denmark and Norway, is the perfect occasion. The holiday has little to do with St. John the Baptist, other than falling just before his saint day. In the 10th century Baltic and Scandinavian countries replaced the traditional names of Midsummer with allusions to the feast of St. John the Baptist, which fell on June 24.
And in the Catholic countries of Europe, they have Carnival(mardi-gras) to take up the slack for the lack of Halloween. Though I think Walpurgisnacht is still celebrated in parts of Germany as well.