Mar 1, 2020
1 March, Martisor - Tradition and Symbolism in Romania
The #Martisor is a traditional offering of good luck on #1stMarch together with wishes for good health, happiness and love. #Folklore & Seasonal #symbolism of #Romania. Charming and pure. Memories.
They blamed it on the March wind, curious and playful, throwing off the girls’ scarfs so tightly wrapped all winter long, deceitful in its scented games, innocent in appearance, a trickster of a djinn. The red mark left on the maidens’ cheeks by the spring wind was a sure tell-tale. Some older women got it too. And there was not cure, known or unknown.
What was there to do? No one liked a…
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