Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
Celebrating December the way Romanians did in the old days, with a Romanian legend inherited from time’s haze, with love for the living and a nod to the dead, spirits united on the threshold of a year ahead.
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Enjoy Pure at Heart, a short story weaving history and folklore, eerie and magic, out today on Spillwords Press.
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Sumedru’s Sacred Fires mark the beginning of pastoral winter and you can see them dancing in the heart of the night if you travel through the southwest of Romania, namely Oltenia or western Wallachia.
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The poem Romanian Calusarii or Man Dancing With Horses is a Pantoum marking my debut on Plum Tree Tavern, a literary magazine I have long admired. So I am thrilled!
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On the 24th of June, around Midsummer Night, in Romania we celebrate Sanzienele or Dragaica, but also the birth of Saint John the Baptist.
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