Martini – calendar custom, also known as Martinia, wolf holiday, etc., connected to different dates. It lasts one or three days and most often binds to Christmas Patri (November 27/14). It is associated with more actions, which binds the mouth of the wolf not to eat the goods. This was made in such a way that scratches for hemp or wool were left on both sides of the barn door and after the passage of the goods they were closed and so were left an ordinary period, with the belief that the mouth of the wolves were closed. And in order not to harm, such magical actions against the wolves are dedicated to other days of the year. It was believed that a person wearing clothes made in these days will attack the wolves. In some places, this holiday binded with the three days after St. Aranzel and named wolf holiday. Lit.: Zorka Delinicolova, customs associated with individual holidays and weekly days in Radovish, “Messenger of the Ethnological Museum”, 1, Skopje, 1960; Marko Kitevski, Macedonian holidays, Skopje, 2001. M. Keith.
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