... ouldnt 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 sa him off and shared their strength ith him. So they helped him defeat the dragon and save the Sun. His journey lasted for three seasons summer, autumn and inter. He found the dragons castle and they started to fight. They fought for days and finally the dragon as killed. Poerless and ounded, the young man set the Sun free. The Sun rose in the sky cheering up all the people and filling them ith joy. The nature revived, the people got happy, but the young man couldnt live to see spring coming. The arm blood from his ounds dropped on the sno. hile the sno as melting hite floers, called snodrops, messengers of the spring, ere appearing out of the sno. Even his last drop of blood dripped out in the immaculate sno. And he died. Since then the young people have been knitting to little tassels a hite 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 mans blood. hite symbolizes the pureness and health of the snodrops, the first floers that appear in spring.Here are some Festivals that Romanians celebrate in Summer-DragaicaThis very ancient agrarian custom is connected ith the harvest, still survives sporadically in certain villages in the south of Romania. The Dragaicas are little girls of 11 to 12 years old, adorned ith ears of corn. One of them is dressed as a bride and another one is dressed as a boy named Draganu. Sometimes Draganu is a boy. He holds the banner of the Dragaicas a pole ith a rag-doll ith outstretched arms, made of ears of corn or of a bunch of ears and ith ormood and garlic at its top. The Dragaicas sing and dance in a circle ithout holding hands. At intervals they hirl round and yell and the Dragan, the boy, histles on an ordinary histle. ishing to amplify the performance, the little girls have added to the original ritual dance other dances borroed from the gron up dancer. A flute-player or a piper ho accompany them plays the music. ritten By Stefan Dobrin CosminynhjP CJ5CJOJaQJa5OJaQJaCJHCJjRaaa0P à!aa7ia0i0NormalsHmHsHtHiHeading 1aia5OJaQJaAiDefault Paragraph FontiTitleaaa5CJOJaQJa2Bi2Body Text5OJaQJa.Ui.HyperlinkBphaJQe!jLa33aMarian Stefan DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda.docMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docMarian Stefan6CtINDOStTEMPtAutoRecovery save of The Paparuda1.asdMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docMarian Stefan!DtMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.doc1FDtDocuments and SettingstAdministratortMy DocumentstThe Paparuda1.docaDVDFDtMy DocumentstNETtREFERATEtREFERATE.ROtENGLEZAtENG6tTh
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