Come join me on Intrepid Times
as I follow Vlad the Impaler:
❄ 🚂 🏰 Snow on the Tracks: Shadowing Vlad the Impaler to Sighișoara - https://intrepidtimes.com/2025/04/snow-on-the-tracks-shadowing-vlad-the-impaler-to-sighisoara/
#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:
https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/under-sign-of-four-turrets-100-word-story-sibiu/
Under the Sign of the Four Turrets, 100-word Story in Sibiu. What is "ius gladii" and a church portal that cost as much as a coat: 3 golden coins.
Romanian Drob, a Lamb-Terrine for Easter, its History, Symbology and Traditional Recipe #Im4Ro https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/drob-for-easter-history-symbology-culinary-tradition/
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
The Romanian drob, herb-scented lamb-terrine, is the centerpiece of an Easter meal, learn of its millennial history and culinary tradition.
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.
🌲 Listen to that! Hear it? The evergreen forest is noisy
The thaw is near. Twigs snap, snow sighs, rivers hum awake. Spring is tiptoeing in, shaking winter’s grip with every drip and drop.
#Spring #folklore
#BookologyThursday #Im4Ro
🎨 Ion Andreeacu
🌸Just published:
Threads of Mărţişor"
https://www.romania-insider.com/martisor-patricia-fFurstenberg-story-romania-2025
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!
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...
Valentine’s Day in Romania is Today! Dragobete ♥
♡what to do
♡what to try
♡what to say
https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/valentines-day-romanian-folklore-dragobete-ziua-indragostitilor/
#folklore #love #2ndchances #CelebrateLove #spells #OldWivesTales #TodayInHistory #OTD #Im4ro
Romanian folklore is a rich source of fairy tales & traditions, of wisdom & symbolism such as Dragobete, Valentine’s Day or Ziua Indragostitilor
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.
🐥 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.
Patricia Furstenberg