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Romanian embroidery from Bucovina

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Romania. Circa 1920s, by Adolph Chevallier

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a stroll around Obor on the last day of summer

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Sfânta Sâmbătă, care taker of the dead.

Sâmbătă(Saturday) is a day dedicated to the dead, thus the lady assosciated with the day is very busy. She wears down a pair of iron shoes per week with how much she wonders around the world collecting sould that got lost on their way to the next world. It is the day the heavens open and the dead can look back on the living, so it is good to show them you still keep them in your heart by giving alms in theri memory and lighting candles for them. Sâmbăta also shares the name with the primodial river that springs from the roots of the tree of life in heaven, circles the world 9 times before turining into a river of fire upon reaching hell. All the water in the world comes from and eventually ends up in the Sâmbăta river, but nothing that goes down on its waters ever comes back. Thus, it is thought to be good to do all the cleaning and washing on Saturday cause the water will carry away all your troubles and they won't be able to return.

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Autumn in Siliștea-Gumești, România

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Six vignettes by Mihu Vulcănescu (Romanian, 1937-1994)

For Lucian Blaga’s Antologie de poezie populară (Bucharest: Editura pentru literatură, 1966)

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings

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Hello magical people!

This is a new blog where I will be posting content mainly regarding romanian mythology, language, literature, etc, but also general cool stuff I find about mythology, culture, anthropology, literature, onomatology (the study of personal names), short story prompts and ideas, yada yada. General whimsical stuff (as vague as that sounds)!

If you're interested in those sorts of subjects, I recommend you keep an eye out on what will be posted here. I will try my best to make posts in both Romanian and English, but I think I might just focus more on the English part, because there're very scarce resources and information about romanian *shenanigans* on the internet. I will make sure to provide sources for what I post If need be, and also: since a lot of these sources don't have English translation, I will most likely provide them so please keep that in mind ^_^

That said, I hope this will be a fun and helpful blog!

(tbh I made this so I could have a place to ramble about my favorite subjects like an unsupervised feral raccoon and just spit them out into the digital sea)

Pupici vrăjitorești!