Consideraţii etnologice privind „piedica rituală”. Rituri „de opoziţie” din Pădurenii Hunedoarei
Ethnological considerations on drag ritual. "Rites" in opposition "in Hunedoara Pădurenii

Summary/Abstract: On the eastern side of the Poiana Rusca Mountains, the Padureni County has a distinct ethnographic character where one could still find alive a number of customs, practices and menthalities from immemorial times. The topic of this paper is the “passage customs”/”rituri de trecere” also called “opposing rituals”. Prof. Mircea Lac’s students from “Palatul Copiilor” Deva, Hunedoara researched the subject under the scientific supervision of prof. univ. doc./Phd Ilie Moise from the University “Lucian Blaga” Sibiu. The origins and purposes of some of the “opposing practices” are known to the academia but they are quite difficult to understand and not well publicized by and to the masses. According to the passage/opposing percepts the “malefic spirits” were attracted by positive attitudes and wellbeing but they could be misguided and led astray by certain protocols and habits. The common thread in the opposing/resisting tradition was the offering of a negative/passive impression to the “bad spirits”. Along with the symmetric “positive routines” they consistitute a complex, comprehensive and whole set of rituals. In Padureni, the believes and occult misguiding rituals of the “bad omens” (“hale rele/duhuri rele”) take shape and are followed starting with the birth and adolescence, following with marriage and death.

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