The holiday is one of love, lust for life, sun and fertility, and the Sanzians are also called Beauty, Fairies or Dragons.
It is believed that on the night before the Sanzienas all miracles are possible, but also that the forces of good and evil reach maximum forces. It is also the night when the sky opens and the Sanzienele begin to dance.
According to the legend, the Sanzienele are girls who live in the plains or in the forests and who dance in the choir, a gesture through which the plants are offered special uses to cure diseases.
Also on this night, the Fairies walk the Earth, sing, fly and bear fruit to holders, married women and contribute to the breeding of animals and birds.
The sick are healed by Sanziene and defend the hail crops.
What traditions exist
In some areas of the country, this holiday is one that is observed exactly, and the girls from the village collect sanziene flowers and make them wreaths that they throw over the houses. If the wreaths hit or cling to the chimney, a wedding will take place in the house as soon as possible.
In other areas, the wreath is thrown over the corner of the house, and the girl comes to pick it up the next day and takes it to the cattle stable and feeds it with her eyes closed to a cattle. It is said that as the cow looks, so would the future husband.
Sanzian flowers are also put in water to strengthen children who are weak.
The boys have the task to walk through the village on the morning of June 24 with sanziene flowers at their hats.
This is the day when Dragaica is chosen. This will be the most beautiful and good girl in a group of seven and will be adorned with ears of wheat, while the others will be dressed in white. They walk through the village, and at the crossroads they stop, do a dance and sing.
Magic is also the dew of Sanziene Night. It is believed that if you spray your body with dew it will be more beautiful and supple, and if you wash your face you will be more handsome and proud. Also about dew now is believed to cure osteoarthritis, bone pain, eye and skin diseases.
For health, but also to have an increase in field work, some people warmed themselves with chicory stalks.
In other areas, fires are fired over which substances are thrown that smell very strongly and are sung around it to ward off spirits.
Tonight, the girls put their sanziene flowers under the pillow to dream of their bear. The girls still make wreaths of sanziene flowers and leave them in the gardens, and if they find them full of dew in the morning, it is a sign of marriage.
What do you suffer if you don’t celebrate Sanzienele
It is said that the Sanzienele are cruelly upset if they are not celebrated on this day and end up like the angry Ieles.
Women who do not respect this celebration they will be angry with Sanziene, who takes revenge by poking their mouths out. Men who swear crookedly or wrongly will be severely punished, because they are great lovers of justice.
Do not tread, mow or wash on this day, because you risk dying crazy.
What Sanziene Night foretells
In some areas the holiday is also called Amutitul Cucului. The cuckoo sings only three months a year, from the spring equinox to the summer solstice or to the Sanziene. It is said that if he does not play before Sanziene, this means that the summer will be a dry one.
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