The Night of All Nights (VIDEO)
By Diana Ungureanu/ Chisinau / Moldova.ORG/ -- There comes with hurried steps the night when heavens will open and secrets will be untied. With this night are started winter holidays. Have you understood what night I am talking about? If not yet, then be careful further.
In this night the wolf becomes more agile and its powers are multiplied. In this night the animals start to speak, but he, who dares to listen what they say, dies. Also in this night the ghosts come out and become dangerous for those who live. This is the night of charms and witcheries.
All these are happening only in a night, between 29th and 30th of November (new style) or between 12th and 13th of December, when all Romanian nation celebrates a holiday dedicated to St. Andrew.
The feast of St. Andrew has a special significance for Romanian people. Saint Andrew is the one who christened the first Christians from our territory, being considered the spiritual patron of Romanians.
The traditions of St. Andrew are various and multiple; perhaps there is no other celebration so full of symbols like this. The legends of Bucovina say that in the night of St. Andrew wolves begin to speak and move their stiff necks. Those who want to hear what wolves speak will die quickly and if a man is attacked by a wolf, he will be turned into a werewolf.
It is the great night of St. Andrew, when girls call their predestinated husbands, makes spell-works and predictions on the coming year.
The tradition says to take 12 onions, to put them in the attic and leave until the evening of Christmas. Each month of the year corresponds to an onion. The onions that have gone bad mean the rainy months, but those that germinated mean the months that are favorable for harvest.
The same is made with wheat, which is put at germinating for each family member. He whose wheat is the most beautiful and the tallest will have a good year, with health and money. If the night of St. Andrew is clear and warm, then the winter will be gentle, if it is frosty, then it will be a heavy winter.
On St. Andrew, don’t lose the opportunity to go in the countryside to take part in one or more magical practices and customs, to put wheat on germinating and to watch how it is in the night to know how the next year will be.
And remember, this is the night when all the secrets are untied.
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