Oct 28, 2017
It lives up in the mountains and descends on Tuesday nights to lure with its singing and punish the women caught working. . Called Marțolea (or Joimărița) is a malefic entity, who demands the semi-holy day of Tuesday to be respected and who forbids four women's chores: spinning of the wool, sowing, boiling laundry and baking bread. This is a pagan being. Usually his form is of a goat with human like head, horns & hooves. He can shape shift into a big old woman dressed all in black, ugly, soldier/warrior or as a handsome man. To married women it shows as an old woman, to married men as a virgin and to unmarried women as a young charming man. -mainly from Wikipedia.