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The Boars: romanian constellation. In the constellation Taurus, the Romanians have identified
two other constellations that have no equivalent in the groups of stars from the official list
of the International Astronomical Union: the Hatching Hen with her Chicks or the Pleiades
and Boars. Therefore, these two constellations are purely Romanian asterisms. Boars are identified
by Romanian peasants in the star cluster of Hyades and merges practically with the bull
head. Hyades are actually several V-shaped stars, the brightest being Aldebaran, the
star from the bull's eye, or the Bright Star of the Pig in Romanian belief. In some areas,
the constellation is called the Swine or Sow with her Piglets, the star Aldebaran being
the Sow and fainter stars in the asterism sow piglets.