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Easter Celebrations and Ritual Plants by Claudia Balaș is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document discusses plants used in celebrations around the Easter holiday cycle in Romanian folk culture. It describes how the Easter cycle combines Christian and pre-Christian traditions focused on fertility and nature. Plants used have special magical and medical properties and become vegetal emblems accepted by the Orthodox Church. One major feast is Sântoader, midway through Lent, marking the border of winter and spring. Plants picked at this time like hart
- Author
- Claudia Balaș
- Language
- EN