Petlyovden (Rooster’s Day)

 February 2nd

    The second “Trifounetz” (wolf day) is also called Rooster’s Day and is in its essence both a left and a right male day. Old people say that this day is marked because when King Herod killed the infants in search of the new king, a mother painted the doors of all neighbours with the blood from the cut head of a rooster, forging the sign, and in this way saved her son. Later this legend was related to the ferocity of the Janissaries but the holiday remained. The rooster in Christian and pre-Christian cultures is the image of the herald of sunrise. It is related to the notion of resurrection of the dead, a symbol of the ever-resurrecting life. There is another Rooster’s Day on January 20.

 

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