Comunicare susținută la conferinţa „City Rituals”. 13th bi-annual conference of The Ritual Year Working Group (SIEF), organizată de Societatea Internaţională de Etnologie şi Folclor, în colaborare cu  Institutul de Etnografie şi Folclor „C. Brăiloiu”, Institutul de Studii Sud-Est Europene, Academia Română,  Muzeul Naţional al Ţăranului Român, în Bucureşti, România, 7-9 noiembrie 2018. Abstract Romania is still characterized by a rural type of society where traditional knowledge prevails. When confronted by a completely different social setting (in towns from Romania or from host countries), people tend to develop a closer relationship with the customs and superstitions they learned about while being at home. The paper uses data gathered as part of the research for “Migration and identity” project from The Romanian Academy, Iași Branch. The informants described