For years, we celebrated summer by making and wearing wreaths of Dragaica yellow flowers after clearing the forest of twigs and gathering bouquets of wild plants that we still use for tea and cooking.
In the village life of our grandparents, nature was prepared, anticipating possible fires. From the dry branches gathered from the forest, we would make a fire, eat together, sing, and dance in a circle around the fire.
These seasonal customs, strangely enough, seem like witchcraft to other cultures. Well, they are not. It is a relationship, a communion of humans with nature, which is still preserved in many unnecessarily stigmatized regions.
The stories of fairies dressed in long dresses and wearing flower crowns on their heads come from these seasonal customs, and yes, men went crazy seeing diaphanous silhouettes through thin thread fabrics of the ia blouse, whose design and embroidery motifs enhanced the natural beauty in the light of the summer fire, but that was not the girls' fault.
Beauty belongs to the one who has it, just as these flowers, before they fell, belonged to the trees.
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