#custom

• 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.
• Old-fashioned — Pertaining to old women, specific to them, or originating from them; characteristic of traditional rural mentalities. In current usage, the term usually qualifies empirical remedies, beliefs, or household customs transmitted orally in rural environments, which do not rely on rigorous scientific or medical arguments but form an integral part of folklore.
• Old folk woman — A popular name attributed to an old woman, often used with a slightly ironic nuance or in magical-ritual contexts to designate a village witch or a chanter. In certain local dialects from the west of the country, the term is also used in popular botany as an archaic indicator for wild, inedible mushroom species or plants with hallucinogenic properties used in ancient times to obtain potions.