Paper short abstract:

This paper follows many metamorphosis of one pre-Christian goddess, a Holy Hag, the personification of the third day of the week, after the liturgical calendar, feria tertia, Tuesday, it’s cult in the Romanian traditions and it’s permanent re-adaptation to the orthodox Christian ritual which dedicated it to the prophets or to the catholic one, which dedicated it to Saint Anton.

Paper long abstract:

Evil female spirit in the ancient Romanian culture, Saint Tuesday is alike Day of the crows, dead, devil, thunderbolt and pots but she is Holy too. In the archetypal space, she lives near Saint Saturday, across the river, she is the lady of the dark empire of worst spirits, the ghosts who leave the tombs and became wolfs, of the wicked fairies.

Become "day of the waters" in the Old Testament, chosen by the Lord to split the waters from land, "day when the Earth was made", Tuesday, blessed in this way, was charged with countless therapeutically values.

The Locked Tuesday, a fasting day in the second week after the Eastern, respected for the human and animal health, especially for the stomachs illness, Tuesday of Dead, Tuesday of Thunderbolt, Tuesday of pots, imported for the popular medicine and the witchcraft with the water from the first snow, all are magic representations, related in one way or another to the celebration of the ancestors cult.

The Holly Hags, responsible for the "precincts culture" of the old Europe following the expression from Marija Gimbutas, before receiving the names of the week's days, could have been goddesses of the vegetation, that disturbed often the "sad old Man", God.

This paper follows many metamorphosis of one pre-Christian goddess, a Holly Hag, the personification of the third day of the week, after the liturgical calendar, feria tertia, it's cult in the Romanian traditions and it's permanent re-adaptation to the Christian orthodox and catholic rituals.