Andrei Şaguna şi Nuntele româneşti în satele din sudul Transilvaniei
Andrei Şaguna and the Romanian Weddings

Summary/Abstract: In the paper Andrei Şaguna and the Romanian Weddings there is a novel document (underlined and commented) from the Haşfalău and Paloş villages, Braşov county, dating from 1851, that has been preserved in the archive of the Mitropolitan Seat of Adreal in Sibiu, adressed to Andrei Şaguna where we find a description of the celebrations of romanian weddings in this sudtransilvan multicultural area. Edited to incriminate moments "that damage christian and social morality" there are detailed specific customs, the origin of their old "pagan" roots, the place it occupies in the collective consciousness and how they were handled by ecclesiastical administration. Here have been outlined (documented) manifestations of the popular spirit during festive moments in family and group, inventiveness and spontaneity of the folk creators, music’s place in these moments of life etc. But also the caution woth which they could be offset by other rules, including religious, which, in everyone’s opinion can only have a limited character. For cultural and patriotic reasons, but also for realistic considerents, nobody ever thought of their abolition.

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