Ion CHERCIU
Institutul de Etnografie și Folclor „Constantin Brăiloiu” al Academiei Române
Attirée par la beauté du costume populaire de la région du Banat, Elena Secoşan a été une admiratrice sans résérves des travaux du professeur G. Oprescu, à l’école duquel elle reviendra après l’instauration du régime communiste qui avait passé sous silence l’activité scientifique de l’Ėcole
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Aurel Ioan BULBUC
Asociația folclorică „Avram Iancu” Cluj-Napoca,
Adriana BULBUC
Muzeul Național de Istorie Cluj-Napoca Transilvaniei Cluj-Napoca
On the 14th of May, 1987, when it was founded, the unique Ethno- Archeology and History Museum from Iclod had 3 exhibition rooms; nowadays, it has had 12 exhibition rooms.
The „soul” of the Museum is the teacher, choreographer and historian Aurel Ioan
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Pamfil BILŢIU, Maria BILŢIU
Baia Mare
After a brief presentation of the particularities of the Lăpuş area, the first part of our research was dedicated to the history of Costeni village, a folkloric and ethnographic hearth of Romanian ancient and perennial civilization, where the rhapsodist and artisan Vasile Hereş lives and works.
The investigation part presents the rhapsode’s activity, with
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Daciana VLAD
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai
The werewolf is, in the Romanian mitology, an extraordinary being, a demon who swallows the Sun and the Moon, thus causing eclipses. Multiple representations of this creature, such as regular animals (wolves and dogs) or even fantastic beings (dragons) have led to a mistery concerning the demon's appearance. The werewolf is the embodiment of evil, which
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Ioan TOŞA, Tudor SĂLĂGEAN
Cluj-Napoca, Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei
The authors present some legal habits found in the answers sent to the legal questionnaires of B. P. Hașdeu (1877) and I. Mușlea (1938).
In the first part named the Village, the authors present on the basis of the information found in the answers to the questionnaires from 1877 to 1938 the ways of villages establishment:
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Marius Ciprian POP
Centrul cultural al MAI
In the universal beliefs, there are over twenty species of sacred trees considered as the center of the universe, ‘axis mundi’, and the apple is among the trees of these species.
In our traditional culture, the apple has a bivalent symbolism magically and Christian religiously, representing the aspect of interdiction and only of reward. As a
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Augustin MOCANU
București
A. Le rituel du colindat. En nous appuyant sur les informations reçues de la part de 31 sujets, on décrit les étapes ponctuelles de ce rituel qui commence le 15 novembre et finit les 27-28 décembre de chaque année. Plusieurs étapes préliminaires précèdent le rituel proprement dit et concernent la constitution des groupes, plusieurs rencontres des
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Costel CIOANCĂ
Academia Română, Muzeul de Artă Veche Apuseană
The true conductor element of the Romanian fairytale, the young woman, proves to be, in the light of the examples under discussion, both an anthropological reality and a source of mythfolkoric imagination, generating in the real objective an unrealistic subjective aspiration designed to create significant models for traditional
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Pamfil BILŢIU
Baia Mare, Maramureș
Our study is focused on a little-studied mythological being around which a true mythology was embroidered - Santa Claus (or Father Christmas), which is part of a series of good, archetypal, mythical ancestors, celebrated at the Winter Holidays: Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas’ Eve, Santa Claus (Father Christmas) and Saint Basil.
The first part of our study
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CONTENT
MATERIAL CULTURE
Pamfil BILȚIU The Stonecraft in Cupșeni ................................................................................................................................................................11
Ion CHERCIU Monographic Research of the Romanian Folk Costume within the Sociological School in Bucharest. Lucia Apolzan Time.............22
Janeta
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