Blestemul, ca formă de comunicare. Expresii ale imprecației în folclorul românesc
Curses as a form of communication. Expressions of imprecation in Romanian folklore

Summary/Abstract: The present paper is the introduction to a study on the “institution” of curses. After a historical approach to curses, that is, to the roots of this symbolic/sanctioning manifestation, we will point out that curses also have a normative, corrective dimension, sometimes they formulate an appeal, an invocation of the norm. Especially in the old curses, inspired by the Scriptures. After all, a curse is made up of a succession of bad words. And in this case, people’s imagination has no limits. Manele songs, melodies copied from oriental music, often contain curses formulated with aff ectogenic terms, referring to aff ectogenic themes – social emotions, feelings towards a brother, a sister, a mother, a child, etc. The most frequent form of imprecation in our country seems to be the cursing/damning, that is, the invocation of the Devil (“Damn”). Sin and its consequence, the curse, would deserve more extensive research, in the sense of developing studies on the psychosociology of failure. This is connected to a certain rhetoric of warning, but also of consolation.

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