The christian celebration of Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste was superimposed over the traditional start of the agricultural year and generated a Romanian traditional celebration, martyrs or “măcinicii”. On this day, proceed to clean household garbage collected posing fire with fire brought from home only to bring the heat in the house and outside. In popular belief the day ends days old women martyrs, whimsical days of winter through spring, leaving room grandfathers days, warm days. Therefore, on this day are numerous rituals chasing frost, such as being beaten with sticks or mallets earth, uttering incantations in order to escape the heat and get cold, or the children’s game over fire.

The 40 Saints of Sebaste were imprisoned, stoned, held in ice water of a mountain lake, tortured and burned. As a sign of respect for their faith Laborer and tortures experienced by Romanians his celebrated every year on March 9 and housewives cook in their honor coils in the form of 8 (representing the body) who call (depending on the geographic area): martyrs, saints, fir or “boboneti”. In Moldova, these coils are baked buns, then anointed with honey and walnuts. In Dobrogea, they are smaller and are boiled in water with sugar, cinnamon and nuts, as a stylization of the lake where the 40 were thrown Saints. In Wallachia, besides regular “bradosi”, is a martyr largest and blind, called “forgotten dead” and who is played by children around the fire in memory of the dead who have been forgotten in the rest of the year.

If until 8 March, Women’s week was on March 9 is said to be on the man. Men should drink the day of Martyrs’, 40 glasses of wine. They are said to represent the blood of the martyrs killed 40 in the city of Sebaste. Those who can not drink 40 glasses of wine, at least they taste wine in this day of March 9, and to be sprinkled with wine, meaning that blood and power for the year.

Many other traditions accompany the 9th of March, among which ritual to beat with a rolling pin into the ground because of it get out warmth, tradition of beating 40 robes (one for each martyr) in order to live many years and healthy and to detect any treasures buried in the ground or custom to go fishing that day, and the one who will catch 40 fish and devour one alive will be able to have good luck all year caught fish.

On day 9 March in all rural communities was customary to remove plows the fields. The plow after the fire was passed by the blacksmith (Faure) village, was taken solemnly in front of the house. In the ceremonial removal of the plow, the woman of the house was the main protagonist in development practices. After bringing the plow in front of the house, ploughmen, usually two in number, were sitting with their heads uncovered before the horse or horses, as appropriate, and the woman came out of the house with a hand bag for ploughmen and in the other holding a bowl of holy water , incense and basil. The woman approached the car and plug, surround them three times, sprinkling them with holy water and incense. During the three revolutions executed in the sense movement apparent sun, the woman spoke in a ceremony complete, the following: “How clean is the incense and holy water, so clean to be made / And to walk inseparable plowing / Nor not when you encounter a ghost or poltergeist ever to harm you. “

Animal work in front sat an egg in the belief that if he has a whole after starting carrier, then it will go well and ploughmen throughout rafting. Peasants receiving bag of food, pour holy water after the woman left in the cuff at the feet of animals. The significance of pre-Christian origins is thrown egg, The egg is considered the measure of all things from the beginning (ab ovo), having him here omen and protective role in the development of plowing.

In some villages it was customary that on this day all the plows in the village to be gathered on pasture village where the crowd gathered, was called priest who was a consecration service water and spraying each plug in hand, after which the ploughmen are headed by its field furrow marking the beginning.

Traditionally it is considered that on March 9 holy martyrs gather to participate in a group of thawing earth and had lowered the heat. In this regard, the villagers beat with sticks in the ground saying, “Come out cold and heat, / Let us be good weather / To plow plowing.”

Martyrs Day was also an occasion for weather forecasting. It is believed that on this day if it rains, it rains and Easter; if tuna, summer will be favorable to all cultures; if freezing the night before the day when autumn will be long.

The christian celebration of Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste was superimposed over the traditional start of the agricultural year and generated a Romanian traditional celebration, martyrs or “măcinicii”. On this day, proceed to clean household garbage collected posing fire with fire brought from home only to bring the heat in the house and outside. In popular belief the day ends days old women martyrs, whimsical days of winter through spring, leaving room grandfathers days, warm days. Therefore, on this day are numerous rituals chasing frost, such as being beaten with sticks or mallets earth, uttering incantations in order to escape the heat and get cold, or the children’s game over fire.

The 40 Saints of Sebaste were imprisoned, stoned, held in ice water of a mountain lake, tortured and burned. As a sign of respect for their faith Laborer and tortures experienced by Romanians his celebrated every year on March 9 and housewives cook in their honor coils in the form of 8 (representing the body) who call (depending on the geographic area): martyrs, saints, fir or “boboneti”. In Moldova, these coils are baked buns, then anointed with honey and walnuts. In Dobrogea, they are smaller and are boiled in water with sugar, cinnamon and nuts, as a stylization of the lake where the 40 were thrown Saints. In Wallachia, besides regular “bradosi”, is a martyr largest and blind, called “forgotten dead” and who is played by children around the fire in memory of the dead who have been forgotten in the rest of the year.

If until 8 March, Women’s week was on March 9 is said to be on the man. Men should drink the day of Martyrs’, 40 glasses of wine. They are said to represent the blood of the martyrs killed 40 in the city of Sebaste. Those who can not drink 40 glasses of wine, at least they taste wine in this day of March 9, and to be sprinkled with wine, meaning that blood and power for the year.

Many other traditions accompany the 9th of March, among which ritual to beat with a rolling pin into the ground because of it get out warmth, tradition of beating 40 robes (one for each martyr) in order to live many years and healthy and to detect any treasures buried in the ground or custom to go fishing that day, and the one who will catch 40 fish and devour one alive will be able to have good luck all year caught fish.

On day 9 March in all rural communities was customary to remove plows the fields. The plow after the fire was passed by the blacksmith (Faure) village, was taken solemnly in front of the house. In the ceremonial removal of the plow, the woman of the house was the main protagonist in development practices. After bringing the plow in front of the house, ploughmen, usually two in number, were sitting with their heads uncovered before the horse or horses, as appropriate, and the woman came out of the house with a hand bag for ploughmen and in the other holding a bowl of holy water , incense and basil. The woman approached the car and plug, surround them three times, sprinkling them with holy water and incense. During the three revolutions executed in the sense movement apparent sun, the woman spoke in a ceremony complete, the following: “How clean is the incense and holy water, so clean to be made / And to walk inseparable plowing / Nor not when you encounter a ghost or poltergeist ever to harm you. “

Animal work in front sat an egg in the belief that if he has a whole after starting carrier, then it will go well and ploughmen throughout rafting. Peasants receiving bag of food, pour holy water after the woman left in the cuff at the feet of animals. The significance of pre-Christian origins is thrown egg, The egg is considered the measure of all things from the beginning (ab ovo), having him here omen and protective role in the development of plowing.

In some villages it was customary that on this day all the plows in the village to be gathered on pasture village where the crowd gathered, was called priest who was a consecration service water and spraying each plug in hand, after which the ploughmen are headed by its field furrow marking the beginning.

Traditionally it is considered that on March 9 holy martyrs gather to participate in a group of thawing earth and had lowered the heat. In this regard, the villagers beat with sticks in the ground saying, “Come out cold and heat, / Let us be good weather / To plow plowing.”

Martyrs Day was also an occasion for weather forecasting. It is believed that on this day if it rains, it rains and Easter; if tuna, summer will be favorable to all cultures; if freezing the night before the day when autumn will be long.