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 | | So you’re supposed to choose one day (your “baba”) from one of the first nine days of March, known to be traditionally fickle weatherwise, see whether it’s rainy, snowy, windy, or sunny, and expect the rest of the year to be like that for you. |
 | | The most common one features Baba Dochia, an old shepherd woman who wore 12 or 9 cojoace (shepherd's coats), which she started to shed one by one at the beginning of March, which caused the aforementioned changes in weather. |
 | | Some legends place her at the formation of the Romanian people,when the Romans conquered the Dacians in 106, and the Dacian leader, Decebal, died in battle; his daughter, Dochia, pursued by Trajan (the Roman emperor who wanted her as a wife), fled to the mountains. |
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