Old Targului Street Sibiu Day-Night Walk Photos and a Medieval Story - Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books As we wandered on the thousand years old Targului Street in Sibiu and snapped both eerie and cheerful photos I imagined how life must have been for the Saxons who built the first wooden houses here, during Medieval Era.

We wandered along the 1000 years old Targului Street in #Sibiu and snapped both eerie and cheerful #photos. I thought of how life must have been for the Saxons who built the first wooden houses here, during medieval times.
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#Im4Ro #Story #HistFic

1 March, Martisor – Tradition and Symbolism in Romania #Im4Ro - Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books The Martisor is a traditional offering of good luck on 1st March together with wishes for good health, happiness and love. Seasonal symbolism of Romania. Charming and pure. Memories.

On my blog, a bit of history and tradition for #1stMarch, day of Marţişor in Romania
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#Spring #1March #Im4Ro #OnThisDay

Stories from readers: Romanian-born author reimagines local myths in 1000-word story ‘The Night of Returning Souls’ | Romania Insider Romanian-born author Patricia Furstenberg invites readers into the shadowed heart of Transylvania with her 1000-word story The Night of Returning Souls. “Let me show you the world as it once was,” she told Romania-insider.com, introducing a haunting tale set on All Saints’ Night, when the...

Night of Returning Souls
Now on:
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#allsaintsday #AllSoulsNight #shortstories #Transylvania #Im4Ro #folklore #legend #MagicalRealism #Romania

🏰 ⚜️ A large gothic chalice?
The bronze baptismal font, since 1472, of Black Church #Brasov.

Church was smaller and known as St Mary's during the time of my latest historical fiction novel...

#FontsOnFriday #ferrousFriday #research #Transylvania #Im4Ro
📸 Black Church

🏰 ⚜️ A large gothic chalice?
The bronze baptismal font, since 1472, of Black Church #Brasov.

Church was smaller and known as St Mary's during the time of my latest historical fiction novel...

#FontsOnFriday #ferrousFriday #research #Transylvania #Im4Ro
📸 Black Church

You've got only tonight, on #SummerSolstice, to search those woods. Find the plant that'll unlock any lock. Set you free.

🌿 White Swallow-Wort (Iarba Fiarelor, Romania) blooms like gold one night alone. Called the robbers’ grass.

#folklore #Im4Ro #Solstice #flowers

You've got only tonight, on #SummerSolstice, to search those woods. Find the plant that'll unlock any lock. Set you free.

🌿 White Swallow-Wort (Iarba Fiarelor, Romania) blooms like gold one night alone. Called the robbers’ grass.

#folklore #Im4Ro #Solstice #flowers

If two brides happen to meet on their wedding day and see one another in their wedding gowns, one is sure to die within the year.

I grew up near a church and often saw brides hiding from each other during the many weekend weddings.
#FairyTaleTuesday #Im4Ro #superstition #weddings #tradition

🏰 Fall of Constantinople #OTD 1453, last breath of Byzantium, first toll of the #EndOfMiddleAgesDay.
Dante born 1265 weeps across time “O human race, born to fly upward,
wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"
#History #BookologyThursday #medieval Corvin Castle #Im4Ro

Snow on the Tracks: Shadowing Vlad the Impaler to Sighișoara - Intrepid Times A pilgrim rides the train from Bucharest to Sighișoara, tracing the shadow of Vlad the Impaler through Romania.

Come join me on Intrepid Times
as I follow Vlad the Impaler:
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#travel #Im4Ro #history #Transylvania #train #traveling #Romania #TravelBlog #HistoryMatters #winter #legend

Forged from fire and triumph: the baptismal font at Evangelical Church #Sibiu was cast from melted Turkish cannons seized by local warriors in 1437. A testament in bronze shaped by Master Leonhardus.

A story too:
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#FontsonFriday #history #Im4Ro

Romanian Drob, a Lamb-Terrine for Easter, its History, Symbology and Traditional Recipe #Im4Ro alluringcreations.co.za/wp/drob-for-...

Lamb dishes through history
The symbology of lamb at Easter time
How the sheep and the goat came to be
Romanian drob, a traditional lamb-terrine recipe

Citind Chiajna din Casa Mușatinilor de Simona Antonescu, Bilingual Shelf Talk De Crăciun am întâlnit-o pe Chiajna din Casa Mușatinilor de Simona Antonescu. On Christmas I met Chiajna from the House of Mușat, historical novel based on a real personality written by Simona Antonescu. Book review for Women's History Month.

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#bookreview #WomensHistoryMonth #strongwomen #Im4Ro

Stories from readers: Romanian-born author crafts a tale of myth and reality in ‘Threads of Mărțișor’ | Romania Insider Romanians welcome spring on March 1 with the centuries-old tradition of mărțișor, a red-and-white trinket symbolizing luck and continuity. To mark the occasion, Patricia Furstenberg, a Romanian-born author in South Africa and a Romania-insider.com reader, shares a story that “blends...

🌸Just published:
Threads of Mărţişor"
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I am fascinated by symbolism, how a simple string carries the weight of history & hope, lightening the burden of those who hold it. Happy #Spring!

#Im4Ro #March #folklore

Valentine’s Day in Romania is Today! Dragobete ♥
♡what to do
♡what to try
♡what to say
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#folklore #love #2ndchances #CelebrateLove #spells #OldWivesTales #TodayInHistory #OTD #Im4ro

In Romanian lore the poppy #flower whispering of sleep and oblivion, yet are stained with the blood of the fallen. It sways over forgotten graves, its crimson petals like spectral echoes of sacrifice, lingering lament for souls lost to war and time.

#FolkloreSunday #Im4Ro

Romanian villages often had a baba or moașă—an old woman skilled in charms and herbal remedies. One who, how else, inherited the renowned Dacians' knowledge. These women were sought after for everything from healing wounds to ensuring safe childbirth.
#MythologyMonday #Im4Ro 📸 K Hjorth, R Ikonen

🐥 One legend from Hen's Mountain, Muntele Găina, Romania, speaks of a 🧚‍♂️ fairy who owned a hen that laid golden eggs. The lovers who came, with open hearts, to confess their love received a golden egg as a wedding gift.
Then greed showed up.

#FolkloreSunday #Im4Ro #truelove

And just like that, poof, it's #February!
From Latin Februarius that culminated with Roman Lupercalia on Feb.15th, in Romania is Făurar. Blacksmiths begin work (= făuresc) on horseshoes & blades for new ploughs ahead of Spring.
❄Yet winter is not over yet.

#history #Im4Ro

An old Romanian rhyme depicting fickle February:
"Faur locks & unlocks
Two weeks creates,
Two weeks unmakes:
With snow, with rain,
It freezes & it thaws,
By frost & heat spells”.

But if you hear the 🦉 owl hooting, know that Spring is on it's way.

#Im4Ro ##folklore #1Feb

In Romanian folklore the tiny wren confronts avian titans among frost-kissed boughs. She represents the past year warbling through winter as a flickering beacon of hope and resurgence.

#FolkloreSunday #Im4Ro #winter #birds

In Romanian folklore the tiny wren confronts avian titans among frost-kissed boughs. She represents the past year warbling through winter as a flickering beacon of hope and resurgence.

#FolkloreSunday #Im4Ro #winter #birds

In Romania folklore says that washing one's hair on Epiphany Day offends the blessed waters' sanctity by sullying them. Elders caution that it will invite headaches for a whole year. A superstition & sacred tradition from times when rivers were treasured water source. #Im4Ro #OTD

Happy 2025 to all my followers and readers! May this year be good to you.

On Top of the World:
📸 my photo 2000m height, Sinaia, Romania

#mountain #snow #NewBeginnings #Im4Ro

When even the decor smells like Christmas. Choosing cakes...

#Christmas #ChristmasDecoration #gingerbread #ChristmasTree #Im4Ro #cakes

Ancient Dacians considered the bear sacred. Their god Zalmoxis had been born wrapped in a bear skin, after all.
🐻
Bear symbolizes a life in balance:
*fierce & compassionate
*above in spring/below in winter
*a life of 2 halfs

#winter #folklore #Im4Ro #wildlife

❄️🐥🦊❄️🐿 Romanian lore suggests that if farm animals choose to rest on their left side on #Christmas day, they foretell a long winter, its icy embrace stretching over long and chilling months ahead.

#Im4Ro #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreSunday #folklore #woodland

🎄 🎁 📚 ✨
ENJOY reading #books this #Christmas

http://mybook.to/SilentHeroes
http://mybook.to/JoyfulTrouble
http://mybook.to/100WT
http://mybook.to/dreamro

#gift #histfic #Transylvania #dogs #folklore #war #Im4Ro #gift #giftideas #dad #Christmasgifts #traveling #bookstoread

Păsări-Lăți-Lungilă (Stretching-Where-Birds-Fly), a figure from #Romanian folklore, had the ability to stretch or widen at will, catch birds mid-flight. Loyal ally to Făt-Frumos he embod adaptability & courage in service of good.
(On of my favorite heroes)
#MythologyMonday #Im4Ro
🎨 Delia Şopca

Prince Aleodor ignored his father's advice. So he had to obey "Half-man-riding-on-the-worse-half-of-a-lame-rabbit" Luckily, the girl they both fell for had the guts to fight.
#MythologyMonday #Im4Ro
Gorgeous🎨Adriana Mihailescu
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