Litte March Amulet
Every year Romanian people knit two little tassels: a white one and a red one. At the beginning of March, they offer this amulet to the girls they love… In Moldavia, part of Romania, all persons can receive a little March amulet. Red means love for everything that is beautiful and white symbolizes the pureness and health of the snowdrops, the first flowers that appear in spring. That is the first celebration of spring in Romania.
The Legend of March Amulet
Once upon a time, the Sun embodying a handsome young man, got down from the sky to dance a “hora” in a village. A dragon lay in wait for him and kidnapped him from among the people and threw him into a jail. The world got sad. The birds wouldn’t flow and the children wouldn’t laugh. No one dared to challenge the bad dragon. But one day a brave young man decided to go and save the Sun. Lots of people saw him off and shared their strength with him. So they helped him defeat the dragon and save the Sun. His journey lasted for three seasons: summer, autumn and winter. He found the dragon’s castle and they started to fight. They fought for days and finally the dragon was killed.
Powerless and wounded, the young man set the Sun free. The Sun rose in the sky cheering up all the people and filling them with joy. The nature revived, the people got happy, but the young man couldn’t live to see spring coming. The warm blood from his wounds dropped on the snow. While the snow was melting white flowers, called snowdrops, messengers of the spring, were appearing out of the snow. Even his last drop of blood dripped out in the immaculate snow. And he died.
Since then the young people have been knitting two little tassels: a white one and a red one. At the beginning of March, they offer this amulet to the girls they love… Red means love for everything that is beautiful. It reminds us of the colour of the brave young man’s blood. White symbolizes the pureness and health of the snowdrops, the first flowers that appear in spring.
I hope you will enjoy reading about it.
5 comments:
Miriam, that's a nice story. You know what? The colors on the Indonesia flag are red and white. The meaning is pretty much the same as in the story you share with us. Red means bravery and white symbolizes purity.
Thank you for sharing the special story.
That's romantic custom.
I'd like to see the amuret.
In Romania, Does this amuret often become like an engage ring?
I can see a short movie while I was reading this story.
Thanks,miriam.
Miriam, thank you. I like this traditional story. Do you make an amuret? I'd like to see it as well as Aki.Iwan,Japanese flag is also consists of white and red.In the old day, Japanese people thought,sun rise up from this country.That's why red means risingsun,White is sacred and purely.Also,red and white means happy and auspicious in Japan.
It is interensing to know about legends, customs in various countries, isn't it???
That's right! The colors on the Japanese flag are also red and white. It's interesting to see how we all have lots of things in common than we are different.
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