#Dochia

• Abbot — The superior of a Roman Catholic monastery of monks (abbot). In the history of medicine and hospital care, abbots played a major administrative role during the Middle Ages, coordinating monastic hospitals (xenodochia) and infirmaries attached to abbeys, where pilgrims, the poor, and the sick received care and shelter.
• Baba-Dochia — A central figure of Romanian mythology, symbolically personifying the dying old year, harsh winter, and the rebirth of spring. The legend depicts her as an authoritarian stepmother who subjects her daughter-in-law to impossible tasks (such as washing black wool until it turns white); deceived by an early spell of warm weather, she climbs the mountain with her sheep, shedding her 9 or 12 sheepskin coats one by one, ultimately freezing to death and turning into stone alongside her flock, inspiring the myth of the 'Old Women Days' in early March.
• The Old Women Days — The articulated plural of the noun 'babă'; in Romanian popular tradition, the term designates the first days of March (usually from March 1st to 9th), associated with the myth of Baba Dochia, characterized by highly unpredictable and capricious weather, used in rural divinatory practices to forecast a person's character or luck for that year.