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 …
Kukeri tradition symbolizes the departure of winter and the return of new life with the arrival of warm days and is one of the oldest in the Bulgarian lands and dates back to 6000 years ago. In the time of the Thracians, it was celebrated in the days of the ancient Greek god of wine …
A celebratory symbolic day is Tsiknopempti and this is an annual ceremony, the origin of which is lost over the centuries. The most likely version is that it comes from the Bacchus festivals of the ancient Greeks and is one of the few that managed to be preserved. Tsiknopempti is in the 2nd week of …
Clean Monday is the first Monday after Carnival. It means the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent, the Easter fast of the Orthodox with a duration of 40 days, as many days as Christ fasted in the desert. It symbolizes purity, as the meat-eating during Shrove is followed by the great seven week …
