The Feast of Sânziene

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Sânziene are female beings, mostly of the air, fascinating fairies, good but mysterious.

Whoever is pure, authentic, elevated, with a very good control of instinctual impulses can perform meditations and telepathic communions with Sânzienele.

The customs of sânziene night are specific to the whole country and are still respected.

Sânziene are plants with yellow-golden flowers and pleasantly smelling.

They grow through orchards, pastures, forest edges and glades.
Accompanied by music and the lads’ giggles, the girls gather the “sânziene flowers” in bouquets and weave circular and cruciform wreaths or gather them in their florets.

These wreaths and bouquets are brought to the village, where they are placed on the gates, doors, windows, on the barns, on the hives and even in the layers of vegetables, in the belief that they will protect the house and the household from the power of the evil forces (which are not sânzienele), while bringing good luck, health and abundance to people, animals and sowings (they will bloom like sânzienele).

At night, the Sânzienele, these beautiful girls who live unknown in the forests and plains, get caught up in the hora and distribute rich fruit to the fields. They sing wonderfully and give special powers to flowers and weeds that become medicinal plants for all diseases. Women are most likely to get pregnant, and birds of the sky and animals multiply.

All of the Sands are protecting the seeds from hail. In the countryside, this day is observed with holiness because, otherwise, the fairies become good sisters with Pentecost or Fairies.

It is said that women who do not keep the tradition have their mouths repented, but men are not exempt from terrible punishments either. If they lie, swear crookedly or harm their fellow human beings on this date, they may run out of bones or, as the case may be, blind.

The Sânziene are fairy vigilantes, they defend the weak and humiliated in front of those who mock them.

The people of the country think that, this night, the girls dance naked in the woods. The one who sees them remains silent forever or wanders. The Sanzienes are forbidden: washing, sewing or sweeping. Anyone who doesn’t comply with these “laws” is in danger of being struck.

Sânziene’s marriage is the happiest

The night of Sânziene is a wonderful opportunity for those who want to unite their destinies. From dawn, young girls have to wash their faces with dew, but especially to be good. The secret of a happy marriage for the rest of your life is precisely the choice of this day for the wedding.

Girls who are good to marry pick sânziene flowers from the fields and then weave wreaths from them that they throw over the houses. If they hit or cling to the chimney, it’s a sign that the wedding is approaching.

“Go, Sun, come, Moon
Sânzienele are improving,May
their flower grow – flower,Yellow
, smelling,Let
the girls gather it,Tie
them in the crown,Put
them in the hat,Flower
for the wedding,Babele
to say them,Until
autumn to get married.”

The next day, at dawn, the bands of sons cross the villages with the sânziene flowers in the hat, in a sign that they saw the wreaths of flowers on the chimneys at the houses of the girls who are interested in them. They sing, giggle and shout:

“Go, Moon, come, Sun,For
we are shooting at the wedding,The
unsung crowns,Lie
under thrown chimneys.”

The most sober and beautiful girl is chosen Drăgaică in a ceremony attended by the entire community. It is adorned with ears of wheat. The procession goes to people’s houses and each householder receives a straw of wheat. The villagers place these small talismans as high as possible, on the beam or in the barn, hoping that the grain will rise there by autumn.

On the night of Sanzian, women set off in the middle of the night to places known only to them to gather herbs of cure and delights.

Many of the flowers and herbs that are picked on this day, go to church, with the belief that they will be sanctified and through this they will be cleansed from the negative influences of Pentecost (a kind of evil fairies of the forests). Only then, they say, will they be good for the cure.

The Sânziene holiday also has a funerary character.

Also now there are the Santas de Sânziene, from the cycle of the Summer Santas, when fruits and vegetables are given as alms for the souls of the departed. Children are sprinkled with water to protect them from diseases, and people suffering from rheumatism have to enter the river up to their waists in the morning and thus wait for the sunrise.
They will look at the sun in the water, not in the sky, and only in this way, it seems, will they be healed. The whole of nature is involved in the Sânziene holiday, and the woodpecker, which begins its singing at the spring equinox, stops singing after this date.

Tradition says that the vervain ghesed on the night of Sanzian has an effect in the charms of love. Also, sânziene flowers should not be plucked or broken, but cut from a single blow with the knife, during which special verses are spoken.

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