Mărțișor
Mărțișorul is the Romanian March talisman, a red-and-white twisted silk thread finished with a small charm, coin or bead, given on 1 March as a wish of health, love and good luck for the coming year. The name and the month both come from martie, March, and folk memory links the custom to the return of spring and to the capricious weather-woman Baba Dochia, whose shepherding stories echo the alternating mild and cold spells of early spring. Worn on the wrist or pinned to the chest for the whole month, the mărțișor is taken off at the end of March and tied to the branch of a fruit tree, believed