Paparuda
Paparuda , also Perperuna, Peperdua, Paparuna and Piperia , is a Romanian and Bulgarian rain ceremony , which is common in other countries in the Balkans with different names . The ceremony is likely of pagan origin and is practiced in spring and during periods of great drought.
A girl, wearing a skirt made of fresh green vines and twigs, dances singing through the streets of the village, stopping in front of every house where the residents douse her with water. She is accompanied by the villagers who sing and shout to the music. A specific type of dance and melody belongs to this custom.
A comparable Romanian rain ceremony is the Caloian .
The name is probably derived from Perperuna , a (south) Slavic deity, or, according to Sorin Paliga, it is a local Thracian culture medium.
The Dodola ( Romanian dudula , dudulica , Dodola , Albanian Dudule , Greek tuntule , Croatian dudulya and didilya ), in which it is another name for a similar custom, Decev compares with Thracian Anthroponymen and place names (such Doidalsos , Doidalses , Dydalsos , Dudis , Doudoupes etc.) and says that Paliga had Thracian origin, whereas the paparuda only when the Romanians ( paparuda ), Vlachs ( pirpirună ) and South Slavs ( peperuda , perperuna ) was found.
The name Dodola can possibly be associated with the Lithuanian word for thunder ( dundulis ).
See also
literature
- Mihai Dragnea: The Thraco-Dacian Origin of the Paparuda / Dodola Rain-Making Ritual. In: Brukenthalia. Romanian Cultural History Review Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei , No. 4, 2014
- Walter Puchner : On the typology of the Balkan rain girl. In: Swiss Archives for Folklore = Archives suisses des traditions populaires , Vol. 78, H. 3–4, 1982, pp. 98–125, doi : 10.5169 / seals-117419
Web links
credentials
- ↑ a b c Sorin Paliga: Influenţe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud. ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ D. Decev, Die Thrrakischen Sprachreste , Vienna: RM Rohrer, 1957, pages 144, 151
