Elena Niculiță-Voronca: Enciclopedia interdicțiilor în cultura tradițională românească
Elena Niculiță-Voronca: Encyclopedia of Prohibitions in Romanian Traditional Culture

Summary/Abstract: Datinile și credințele poporului român adunate și așezate în ordine mitologică (Customs and Beliefs of the Romanian People Gathered and Arranged in Mythological Order) can be considered a true encyclopedia of Romanian traditions. Here are fairy tales and oral legends, references and descriptions of important regional customs along with peasant traditional recipes, information about magical rituals, riddles, proverbs, and seemingly insignificant and difficult to classify beliefs. Elena Niculiță-Voronca’s book carefully reproduces information received by correspondence from all regions inhabited by Romanians. She also records a large number of beliefs formulated as interdictions: what should not be done, what you are no allowed to do, what is not good to say, to look at, to eat, to believe and so on. My presentation aims to make an inventory of these prohibitions, describing the most important types.

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