Sorcova



 "Sorcova" is a bouquet used for New Year's wishes. Children wish to the people a happy New Year while touching them lightly with this bouquet.

The children invoke the divinity of vegetation for the health and wealth of the host in the morning of the first day of the New Year.
"Sorcova" is a symbol of fertility, health and purity. The children touch everybody with "sorcova", wishing them to blossom like apple-tree and pear-tree, to live and grove old like these and to be as strong as a stone or as iron, getting all kinds of gifts.


Maria Dumitru
“Duiliu Zamfirescu” School, Focsani
Romania


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