Alice went to Bulgaria

Alice went to Bulgaria. She said that the people were wearing some strange decorations during March. They were colored in white and red. She also told that the Bulgarians always wear them because of a tradition. According to a legend, before khan Asparuh established the Bulgarian kingdom, he told his sister, Huba, that they had found a land near the river Danube. His sister was a slave in another kingdom and she escaped. She mounted a horse and she took off to the river Danube. When she got there she tied a white thread to a falcon`s foot and released it. The falcon was going up when suddenly it felt down, hit by an arrow. The white thread was colored red by the falcon`s blood and Huba knew that her brother and his people were just across the river. The decoration was called “martenitsa”, because it happened in March and after that all Bulgarian people started to wear this decoration as a symbol of health and success. Alice was inspired by the legend about this decoration and she immediately put a martenitsa on her jacket and she loved it.