#romanian christmas carol

[we-got-that-power-power]

Alexandra Chira & Grupul SILVANIA - A venit și aici Crăciunul & O, ce v...

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★★★𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 (12 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙁𝙡𝙪𝙛𝙛𝙢𝙖𝙨 𝘿𝙖𝙮 5: 𝘾𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜)★★★

Character: Alcina Dimitrescu

Taglist: @inlovewithgreta @lilfartbox1 (Message me to be a part of the taglist until I get a page set up!!)

Trigger warnings (DL, DI): N/a

Genre: Fluff

A/n: Day 5 people, I'm not feeling too good but didn't wanna get too much behind, I'll post two tomorrow hopefully.

Word count: 1.2k

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The cold winter months were always depressing around Castle Dimitrescu. The women of the household didn't celebrate Christmas, and the girls couldn't leave the house due to the cold. But after two years of working as a maiden, you were determined to achieve the hallmark Christmas you felt the girls you loved deserved.

You had joined the "family" after your 21st birthday after hearing all of the benefits such as a place to stay and a buttload of cash, but a certain someone was the main reason you stayed.

The lady of the house, Alcina Dimetrescu. Her golden eyes complemented her luscious black locks that would lay softly on her shoulders and bounce slightly every time you or one of the girls made her laugh. Her sweet Romanian accent. Her incredibly seductive body and voice. Her half-transformed form with her tentacles and wings. Everything about the older woman had you in a glue trap, leaving you stuck to writhe around in your own sticky feelings.

Her Romanian nicknames would always leave a dusting of pink across your face as soft as the snow that fell on the castle during the short winter days, and the way her arm would snake around your waist whenever you were standing next to her while she was reading.

You loved the woman and you wanted to be with her for the rest of your life. But you weren't even sure how to express a single percent of your love.

But one thing you did know was what Alcina loved more than anything: her daughters. And making them happy would make her happy, which was your way of flirting with the vampire.

Whenever you'd look at the older woman, you'd wonder what could happen if you just did it. If you just confessed, what would happen?

If you just stood up and made a silent confession, would she even look at you the same?

That's all you could think about as you stood in the large kitchen that had been left alone by all of Alcina's chefs who had gone home for Christmas break. You shuffled through all of the ingredients that rested in the large pantry to find every single ingredient for the chocolate chip cookies you were about to make.

"One O'clock..." You muttered, lifting your head softly to look at the large grandfather clock near the exit of the room you were in before looking at the darkness outside caused by the night, smiling in determination before getting to work.

Your brain was all over the place, and your heart rate was higher than normal due to how quickly you were trying to make the Christmas desserts for your favorite girls.

Swiftly hiking up your Colette dress, you got to work mixing each ingredient in the silver bowls in your hands, laughing each time flour or sugar would fly up into your face. But unbeknownst to you, Alcina was just as awake as you, listening to your heartbeat with her enhanced hearing.

Minutes passed as you busied yourself by finishing off the dough. Using a nearby cookie scoop to place each ball on the parchment paper, you hummed your favorite Christmas carol to yourself, still unaware of the woman listening in.

"What on earth is she doing?" The golden-eyed woman asked out loud, standing up and wrapping a silk black robe slightly against her underwear-clothed frame.

Alcina moved slowly through the castle, checking up on each of her daughters before finally walking towards the kitchen where she heard your heartbeat and other movements.

"What is that smell?" She whispered to herself, pausing in her tracks once she saw you in the kitchen, taking the cookies off of the tray and putting them on a large plate before writing a note next to it.

Standing there, you smiled softly yet proudly as you placed the now empty tray in the marble sink, your eyebrows furrowing once you felt an overwhelming presence behind you.

"Draga mea?" Alcina finally asked you, her tone questioning rather than upset, sharply watching every one of your movements.

You immediately froze up, your eyes shooting wide open.

"My lady- I-" You blushed, turning around, pulling down the skirt of your uniform. "I'm so sorry I just- Please forgive me!" You exclaimed with a shaky voice.

"Y/n I-"

"I'm so sorry I didn't mean to wake you! Please forgive me I'll leave!" You ran off, genuinely terrified that the woman you loved would possibly resent you.

Alcina quickly grabbed you, pinning you up against her body, electing a gasp from your body.

"Draga mea, be good and stay still," The black-haired woman said sternly, turning you around to squat down in front of you.

"Yes M-"

"Also none of that, you will call Alcina," Her eyes narrowed. "Now tell me what you were doing,"

"Making cookies for the girls and you... I've just...never seen you or your daughters celebrate Christmas as long as I've been here, and I wanted to give you the special holiday you deserve since you guys can't go out in the cold," You explained, shutting your eyes as your head fell to face the floor.

"Oh Y/n," Alcina cooed, pulling your chin up to face her. "Why would you care so much? After all, I'm just your boss,"

"But you aren't," You sniffled, wiping a single tear from your eyes.

"What do you mean Draga?" The maiden asked, "Don't cry, it's okay, just tell me," She assured you.

"You're more than an employer to me Alci! I love you! And I wanted some way to show it!" You finally confessed, your legs nearly giving out on you from the weight lifted off your chest.

You felt her golden eyes pierce through you, and before she could even speak, you did.

"I'll leave if it makes you uncomfortable I'm sor-"

Your words were cut off by Alcina pressing her lips against your own, squeezing at your body softly, trying to take all of you at once. Her lips were soft and plump, and she tasted delicious and addictive.

"You don't know how long I've been waiting for you to say that Y/n," She smiled softly before pressing a kiss to your neck.

"Are you serious Alci?" You asked meekly, to which the woman in front of you nodded.

"I've never been it any more than I am right now," Alcina nodded, grabbing a cookie off the plate before taking a bite. "Besides, how could I pass up a good baker like you to be my partner?" She chuckled.

You laughed softly, before pulling her into another kiss, tasting the fruits of your labor in her.

"I think this may be the best Christmas I've ever had, and it's all thanks to you, Y/n," The golden-eyed woman looked at you with adoration, before taking your hand in hers. "Why don't we make it even better and you come to my bedroom with me? We can have more of your cookies when it's a reasonable time to be up,"

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-Akira

[sgiandubh]

Sunday sounds: a most peculiar encounter

Yesterday, many of us celebrated the Epiphany, marking the end of the holiday period in the Christian world.

The journey of the Magi is probably one of the most mysterious and enticing episodes of the New Testament. It is also, as I told you before, something deeply sentimental and personal, and as such, a natural choice for today's Sunday sounds.

For anyone living in Bethlehem at that particular moment in time, the arrival of three affluent, sophisticated and possibly even powerful men, purportedly guided by a star and asking around for the new King of Kings, must have provided some mighty gossip material. That the above King of Kings was found in a humble manger, together with his sublimely humble, even vagrant family, only adds to the power of this most unlikely encounter between two worlds which never should have collided.

What happened then is nothing short of revolutionary and it sets the tone for everything that followed. Forever changing our world, the same way the star forever changed these Three Wise Men's lives.

Curiously enough, there are very few Christmas carols celebrating this moment. This is one of the most beloved Romanian ones, written by the formidable Anton Pann, sometime around 1823. Half Gypsy and half Greek, Pann was also a very gifted psalm singer, as this particular carol uncharacteristically (but brilliantly) shows us. In the best Byzantine tradition, the soloist's voice is, therefore, timeless, ageless and even genderless. That is because the psalm singer always symbolizes, in this particular universe, the Angel.

[traumacatholic]

I went to the Christmas Carols at the local Romanian Orthodox Church, and I've really come to treasure local community. Like, real local community and being actively involved in it. Just in the way they all bring different foods and drinks for after each Liturgy. The way they're always offering food, drinks, friendship, or advice and support. I've had people that I can have actual conversations with in real life, and we get constantly pulled into other conversations with other people. There's something very beautiful and meaningful about that, and I think that's why things have worked the way they have for me.

I really have struggled to socialise my entire life. I've always been dreadfully shy, and I've struggled to find opportunities to kind of make friends and connect with people. Some of the Churches I've been to in the past, had no social opportunities. You went to Mass and then you went home. And it was terribly lonely. So really do try and get involved in your local Church community. Seek out those opportunities where you can, or try and get the Church involved in making these social opportunities. You never know the people you're going to connect with - what they can offer you, and what you can offer them. And I've found it deeply meaningful for my faith, especially as someone that grew up with a family that isn't religious. Just seeing other people's habits and traditions in the faith, and being able to hear their stories and their journeys in the faith have all been deeply helpful to me.

[depressedtheatrekiddo]

Hii!! How are you all doing?? I hope everything's good ⭐✨💫

Get to know me a little if you keep reading and feel free to introduce yourself after it if you want <3

• You can call me Dio and I use they/she pronouns 🫶🏻

• I'm a teen!!

• I enjoy reading, writing, listening to music and doing crafts 🍁🍂

• I would like to study history and maybe archeology too!! But some other things that would interest me would be communication (traduction specially), philology, becoming a museum guide or working at preservation of them <3

• Some of the fandoms I'm at are: the Marauders Era, Nimona, Doctor Who, DC, Sherly world (I've read the original books a few times and almost consumed every piece of media that I can access #looking at ya Sherlock Hound) <3

• Some of my fav ships: Steddie, Buckingham, Pandalily, Wolfstar, Dorlene, Jily, Dickkory and Sherliam 💞💗

• Fav characters: Stevie Harrington, Hob Gadling, Diomedes, Lily Evans, Achilles, Alucard, Crowley, Sherly, Irene Adler (or James on MTP <3), Dick Grayson, Jaime Reyes, Donna Noble, Robin Buckley and McCoy!! ⭐

• Get to know me (and my gender of this month) through songs!!

🌨️ | Drain Me! - Towa Bird (Terminal 5 live will always save my life)

🪴 | Legendary - Epic

🪻 | Babydoll - Dominic Fike

🍓 | I Eat Boys Like You for Breakfast - Riot Grrrl Sessions

💚 | Gaia - El Mägo de Oz

**Here is my Spotify profile if you wanna take a look!! You can share yours in comments too if you want to <3

• More curiosities!! I have two little sibs + I'm a leo (8th of August) + I only drink water because I don't like gas + I've got my first Sherly book when I was 8yo + I speak Spanish, Catalan, English, a little of Romanian (my mom's from there) and would like to learn Korean, Greek and Latin (thought this year at school I'm learning lexical roots that come from Greek and Latin)

• Some (kinda?) fanfics I have here!!

🌟 | Steddie Famous AU <3

❄️ | Stevie + Tommy + Carol on Christmas

🔧 | Steddie (School teacher Stevie and fix-things-guy Eddie)

🕯️ | Screaming the name of the foreigner's god <3 (Steddie, kinda?)

💓 | Platonic stobin my babes <3 (Maneater moment!!)

And that's all loves!! Have a nice day <3

[maia-radfemdu]

i had a dream Lorde was Romanian and her name was Kristina-Maria Romania de Medici and she had an album of Romanian Christmas Carols and her dad was a neurosurgeon in Chicago with a Wikipedia page and she spoke Romanian??? I don't even listen to Lorde 😭

[eurovision-revisited]

Eurovision 2006 - Number 61 - Millenium – "Cred în steaua mea"

The history of Formația Millenium (yes, one 'n') resembles a K-pop band formed of Soviet child musician heroes. They've had different generations of members, recruited in their teens to sing, record, perform everything from rock to pop to Christmas carol compilation LPs. They rehearsed and recorded in the basements underneath Chisinau State Circus, an abandoned Soviet monument to entertainment where they would freeze in winter and boil in summer. Their leader, impresario, and mentor was Vlad Gorgos.

The first incarnation started in the late 1990s and consisted of a group of kids including Vlad's own son. That band was 'replaced' in 2003 by a new brood of teenagers and students from the Chisinau music academy. They could sing, play instruments, perform - it was a modern day musical circus production line and I truly hope the conditions had improved by then.

It's this second generation of Millenium that found themselves on the second try that TRM had a national final in 2006. I'm not entirely sure which members of the band are on stage as there were more than six of them in the band at the time, but I'm fairly certain that the woman violinist and singer is Olga Gorcinschi. Until very recently one of their members had been a certain Natalia Gordienko - but she had other plans this year...

There was a semi-final and a final on TV. They sang Cred în steaua mea (I Believe in My Star) a turbo-folk fuelled rock workout started by a man cracking a whip. An allusion to their circus based home. It's a song sung by wide-eyed youngsters dreaming of a big, bright futures. They're fit, tanned and profess their belief in love just a little bit too much.

They cruised through the semi-final and the fun, young, vibrant group appealed both to the judges on the jury, who placed them second of the thirteen songs in the final and to the watchers at home who placed them fourth. That put them on seventeen points. Unfortunately for them, the three winners tied for first place, on eighteen points. Millenium were one point away from success!

Or so it seemed. That tie proved problematic for TRM. In order to resolve it, the took the unusual step of cancelling the entire national final after it had happened and scheduling a second one at short notice. They did invite the three bands who won, but only one of them agreed to take part. A completely new slate of another four acts were also invited to join in and it was one of those new acts (including former Millenium member Natalia Gordienko) that won. Obviously there were complaints, accusations of fixing and worse, but the new result stood.

The band were so close! As you might expect for a group managed by others, this wasn't going to be their final attempt and since 2006 they've taken part in two more Moldovan finals and one Romanian one. They've also continued to perform, record and churn out music with a line-up that has increasingly stayed static. Even now their members and former members release music under the Millenium banner. Olga Gorcinschi has even released a single on their YouTube channel within the last two months.

[we-got-that-power-power]

Concert "Sub fereastră la om bun" Suzana si Daciana Vlad 🌺 🌸 ❤️ 🎉 🎈🎄🎊🌼

[honorarycassowary]

Now I’m thinking about Dracula/A Christmas Carol fic where Dracula gets visited by his own ghosts. The problem with this, of course, is that the timeline of Dracula only runs through November 7th!

So I propose shifting the holiday in question from Christmas to the Feast of the Cross on September 14th. This is neat because 1) as the name implies, the feast is all about celebrating the cross as a symbol of salvation, when it’s anathema to vampires, 2) September 14th in the Dracula timeline puts us in the midst of Lucy’s recovery, before a wolf breaks into her house. For the construction of this particular idea, I think this needs to be not a “realizing you suck and changing” arc but a “regaining of the soul/reconnecting the animate body with the soul” arc. Reminding Dracula what it felt like to be a human with a soul; what it’s like to feel your soul slipping away from you; what it’s like to be newly soulless and at the mercy of an elder vampire.

Figuring out why this is happening now is another matter. For maximum Victorian pastiche points it could lean into feeding on Lucy, the virgin who is too pure too good for this sinful world as a special and pedestalized kind of evil. This is probably the most natural way to build off of the text of Dracula, but it’s not to my particular taste (like, were those Romanian kids not pure enough?). Alternatively, the disruption of being away from his native land and the merging of human homesickness and vampiric desire for his place of power creates an exploitable opening in Dracula. Potentially recoil from feeding on Jonathan when he is so tied to Mina and so strongly opposed to vampires helps?

[patfurstenberg]

Romania, Incredible Winter Traditions

#Romania, Incredible Christmas and Winter Traditions: Saint Nicholas, Caroling, Bear Dance, Goat Dance, Calusarii, Epiphany, lighting of Fires, Cozonac. #WinterSolstice #Im4Ro #Christmas

Romania knows some millennial, incredible Christmas and winter Traditions. I am excited to share them with you. Admit it, Winter Solstice time and there’s a tingle in the air, a crispness in the wind, a shadow nearly caught out of the corner of one’s eye. After all, the life-giving Sun is the furthest away… But before modern telescopes or even sundials were used, people relied on their inner…

[musicainextenso]

Béla Bartók: Romanian Christmas Carols This is one of my favorite piece based on folk music. Colinde are Christmas carols which are traditionally sang at villages during Christmas, they have both pagan and Christian origins, and are usually sang by young boys going from house to house while people give them food and small gifts. Béla Bartók, besides researching Hungarian folk music, travelled around Eastern and Southern Europe (and to North Africa and Turkey) to research folk music by other nations. He was one of the first musicologists to research Romanian folk music, and later he wrote different pieces based on this folklore. Romanian folk dances and Two Romanian dances are the most well know, but in my opinion this suite is the most beautiful. He composed this piece in 1915, and it contains twenty songs from different regions of Romania.

Zoltán Kocsis (1952-2016) was a famous pianist, and one of the best interpreters of Bartók’s piano music.

Noémi Baki-Szmaler, guest editor -  @une-barque-sur-l-ocean

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Noapte de basm

[thislanguageisunderrated]

Special Christmas post: Romanian Christmas

As I have said in an ask a couple weeks ago, I mentioned making a special pot about Romanian Christmas, and here it is!

Well, first thing you should know is the name of the holiday in Romanian: Crăciun. Since Romania is predominantly a Christian nation, Christmas is mostly the same as for other Christian nations: that time at the end of the year where the family gathers to celebrate the birth of Iisus Hristos (or Iisus Cristos, which is taken from English and it is accepted along the traditional title) while the little ones barely sleep through the night, because of the excitement brought by the presents left by Moș Crăciun (Old Man Christmas, aka Santa Claus) at bradul de Crăciun (The Christmas Fir Tree).

On Ajunul Crăciunului (Christmas Eve) children start going caroling, singing from door to door as tradition dictates, and getting treats or money from the hosts once they finish. The carols, or colinde have traditional Christian lyrics, most of them referring to the birth of Jesus, but there are some that do not necessarily have Christian elements. Here is a sample of a couple of Romanian carols: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRsKeTpWJ-g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoCbDMz5dhw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmK-kGy_WH8

Romanians also have a feast-like dinner on Christmas, with all sorts of traditional dishes and sweets, like cozonac (sweet bread that is filled with walnuts, cocoa, raisins or Turkish delight), salată de boeuf (the name is borrowed from French, and even though it says it, no, it does not contain beef),  piftie (aspic), sarmale (cabbage rolls with minced meat in them) and various pork dishes, since, before Christmas, it is tradition to slaughter the pig a family owns, so that they may have what to eat for the holidays and winter to come.

Now, if you have any Romanian or Romanian speaking friends and family, go tell them Crăciun fericit! (Happy/Merry Christmas!) if they do not celebrate Christmas, but another holiday, just substitute Crăciun with the appropriate holiday. If you are not sure what they might celebrate or you are not sure you will see them before the holidays pass, wish them Sărbători fericite! (Happy holidays!)

If you have any questions, things that are not clear or suggestions, by all means, ask and suggest away. I am always open to feedback. Otherwise, sărbători fericite!

[dominatie]

❛ Si-n zadar n-o sa fie A noastra calatorie A noastra calatorie Leru-i ler. ❜

[alexandragmocanu]

Moșoii

[samdunn]

This is Capra, a Romanian folk costume worn as part of a traditional song and dance which is performed door to door during the holiday period, bringing good luck and warding off evil spirits. Crăciun Fericit!