All over the world peolpe meet spring with joy and new hope but it is only in Bulgaria where it is saved as an ancient custom. If you are walking along the streets in Bulgaria on the 1st of March you will witness many smiling faces. But first of all your eyes will be captured by martenitsas. Everyone has decorated their clothes with them. Moreover, you can see decorated dogs and cats.
Houses have their own martenitsa, as well.
Maybe you are wondering what this decoration looks like. Sometimes it ends are made into tassels from the same yarn. Usually the tassels are decorated with blue beads, small golden coins or colorful threads. Nowadays, almost all these functions are forgotten and it symbolises the coming of the spring. Baba Marta is an old lady.