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Jingle bells

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Through the fields we go
Laughing all the way.
Bells on bob-tail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight.

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Carols

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...

Traditions and superstitions 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,...

Traditions and superstitions Romanian

Open your ears to the ancestors and you will understand the language of spirits.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about language, ancestors

Don't laugh at the nakedness of our ancestors because before their eyes we're all naked for our spirits belong to them.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about ancestors, eyes

To be simple is a pedestrian virtue, but to persevere in simplicity is a virtue of spiritual giants.

Proverbs and old sayings about simplicity, perseverance, virtue

Like the migrating Maruiwi, who all disappeared into the world of spirits Dead like the moa.

Proverbs and old sayings about world