The Fairy Guardians are mythological figures from Romanian popular culture. They are considered wise elderly women who have powers of divination and foretelling the future. According to popular tradition, they are usually associated with important events in a person’s life, such as a wedding or a birth.The origins of these mythological creatures are latin, as …
In the old days, the bear was considered the best doctor for back pain. Before Easter, Christmas or New Year, the “Ursari” type of gypsies (tr.: “bearers”) walked around the villages and caroled from house to house with the bear tied in a chain, to massage people’s backs and remove the pain from the spine. …
Deochi is a superstition of the Romanian people according to which if you admire someone too much, you can curse them, or, in a magical way, hurt them. Through a very admiring look, or on the contrary, through a look full of envy, the person looked at can be “hurt” and start to feel bad …
Folk medicine was based on herbalism. In every village there were ‘grandmothers’, ‘witches’ (women) or ‘whisperers’ (women and men). These were people dedicated to healing the sick and warding off evil spells. It was believed that only the eldest of the siblings (the first-born) could practice this profession. However, by calling them this, the people …
