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Garlic by the savour, bread by the colour.

Garlic is as good as ten mothers.

Night of the Saint Andrew

On the 30th of November, Romaian people is celebrating Saint Andrew, the spiritual patriarch of Romania.

The night before Saint Andrew's Eve is known as the night of the ghosts( strigoi), strigoi means in Romanian...

Christmas traditions and superstitions

In many romanian villages, in Christmas Eve, exists the tradition to smear the cattles and stables with garlic to keep away the bad spiritis. The people are smeared as well with garlic on the forehead,...

A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat.

The garlic said to the onion: 'you stink. '

Love did not grow any garlic.

Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest of the year the doctors may play.

The mortar always smells of garlic.

Whoever rubs himself with garlic will not smell of cloves.

I speak of garlic, you reply about onions.

I speak of garlic, you reply about onions. [I speak of one thing, you reply what is wholly irrelevant. ]

Heart with pepper, soul with garlic.

Had-I-fish, was never good with Garlick.

Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese.

No matter if you eat a little or a lot of garlic, the smell is just as strong.

They made the garlic a bride, its smell did not come out for forty days.

There will be a day for the oppressor when he will be crushed like garlic.