Традиционни народни мерки да обем и вместимост на течности
Traditional Folk Measures of Volume and Capacity of Liquids

Summary/Abstract: Traditional folk metrology is an important, section of the Bulgarian people's social normative culture. In spite of the important place it has in our folk-culture, folk metrology has as yet been insufficiently studied in Bulgarian ethnographic literature. This article sheds light on the traditional folk system of measures of volume and capacity and on one sphere of it in particular - the system of measures for liquids: water, milk, wines, etc. The chronological framework of the article includes the so-called traditional period in Bulgarian national culture from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century until the turn of the 19th and 20th c. The quantity of liquids in the way of life of the Bulgarian people was traditionally determined by its volume— vessels were filled, their capacity being known beforehand. These vessels thus became folk measures. On the basis of source material and folk songs the measures vedro (bucket) and its subdivisions in various regions of Bulgaria have been studied in detail, together with the measures kutel (a large wooden tub), polovjak (half-measure), luzica (spoon), etc., and the old folk measure for wine stomna (jar). Room is also given to the traditional folk measures of volume and capacity for liquids used by the Bulgarians of Thrace, Asia Minor and the Banat.

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