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And their dance will be as magical as flowers in winter, and their touch as soft as the silky veils on the marble stones, and their eyes will kill the sinfull mortal souls, and their smiles will chain the heart to an immortal dream...the dream of the perfect love, the dream of the falling stardust, the dream of dresses made by moon rays. Their hair will blow in the wind, the butterflies will play in their long hair, their feet will barely touch the ground in that crazy dance and the forest will get lost in that unstopable spin. No mortal soul is allowed to see their tragical lamment...the one that does is lost forever in the dream of the fairies. They bring the joy, they bring the richness and in the same time they bring the punishment...they bring the magic and they bring the spell, they bring love and revenge... On which side u will be on the night??? The night when the skies open and the Sanziene dance in the romanian magical forests? What will be the fate of the souls that see them? Blessed with the view of the immortal ones..or forever lost in madness...... EXPLINATION Sânzianã From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sânzianã is the Romanian name for gentle fairies who play in important part in local folklore, also used to designate the Galium verum or Cruciata laevipes flowers. Under the plural form Sânziene, the word designates an annual festival in the fairies' honor. Etymologically, the name stands for sân (common abbreviation of sfânt - "saint", "holy") and zânã (a word used for fairies in general). People in the western Carpathian Mountains and other parts of Romania celebrate the Sânziene holiday annually, on June 24. This is similar to the Swedish Midsummer holiday, and is believed to be a pagan celebration of the summer solstice in June. According to the official position of the Romanian Orthodox Church, the customs actually relate to the celebration of Saint John the Baptist's Nativity, which also falls on June 24. Sânziene rituals The folk practices of Sânziene imply that the most beautiful maidens in the respective village dress in white and spend all day searching for and picking Galium verum. They are instructed to remain alone and unseen, especially by any males. Using the flowers they picked during the day, the girls create wreaths as floral crowns which they wear upon returning to the village at nightfall. They are then supposed to have turned into sânziene fairies, and dance in circle around a bonfire, into which all remains of the previous harvest are thrown. People are prevented from speaking to the girls during this ceremony, as it is presumed that the sânziene spirits possessing them might otherwise be angered or distracted. In some regions, the girls may keep the wreaths until the following year's Sânziene. This, they believe, ensures a fertility for their family's land. In addition, if they place the wreath under their pillow the night right after Sânziene, it is possible that they would have a premonition of the man they are to marry (ursitul, "the fated one"). Another folk belief is that during the Sânziene night, the heavens open up, making it an adequate time for making wishes and for praying, as God is more likely to listen. In some areas of the Carpathians, the villagers light then a big wheel of hay from the ceremonial bonfire and push it down a hill. This has been interpreted as a symbol for the setting sun (from the solstice to come and until the midwinter solstice, the days will be getting shorter). In cultural reference The consequences of heavens opening on Sânziene are connected by some to paranormal events reported during that period of each year. According to popular beliefs, strange things, both positive and negative, may happen to a person wandering alone on Sânziene night. Strange ethereal activities are believed to happen especially in places such as Bãneasa forest (near the capital of Bucharest) or the Bucium forest (near the city of Cluj-Napoca). Mircea Eliade's novel, Noaptea de Sânziene (translated as The Forbidden Forest), includes references to the folk belief about skies opening at night, as well as to paranormal events happening in the forest of Bãneasa. In the form Sânziana ("the sânzianã"), the word has also come to be used a female name. It is notably used as such in Vasile Alecsandri's comedy Sânziana ºi Pepelea (later an opera by George Stephãnescu).