Ion, the man who believes in Muma Padurii

Pictures are taken in the district of Maramures in northern Romania, in the Ion's home, the man who believes in Muma Padurii the mythological figure of the Mother of the Forest. Muma, according to legend, is the guardian of the trees, is an old mutiforme woman who sometimes appears as a beautiful woman, but that turns into an elderly with skin made of tree bark.She lives in the darkest depths of forests, making tree hollows her home. in each forest there is a thick twig with many smaller, tangled branches. That particular twig, and the bush it grows in belong to Muma Pădurii. If one takes it home and burns it, his house will burn down and he will have quarrels in his family. She has very quiet children, which sleep all the time, because she steals the sleep from human children and gives it to her own. Otherwise, they would be very detestable. She takes care of trees, breastfeeding them as a mother breastfeeds her children. She governs their destinies, she is the one who decides which tree will live and which will be cut down. Seems that Muma Pădurii sometimes abandons her tree nurturing activities for more gruesome stuff. She has a specific role on the otherside: she makes the women who gave birth out of wedlock , and then killed their babies, eat their own children. Over and over again.