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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 5 (179), 1117—1126

UDK 392.51(=161.2:477.86)”18/20″

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/

THANK YOU, MY DADDY, FOR YOUR BREAD, BECAUSE I’M GOING TO SOMEONE ELSE’S HOUSE FOR DINNER [«DIEKUVAT’ VAM, MIJ DIEDYKU, ZA VASH KHLIB, BO JA JIDU NA VECHERU V CHUZHYJ DIM»] (MOVING OF A BRIDE TO A GROOM IN THE POKUTTIA TRADITION)

HOROSHKO-POHORETSKA Lesya

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8741-2467
  • Candidate of Historical Sciences (= Ph.D. in history),
  • Senior Researcher at the Ethnology Institute
  • of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,
  • 15, Svobody Avenue, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: horoshyna@gmail.com

Abstract. The relevance of the topic presented in the title is evidenced not only by the living existence of wedding customs on the territory of Ukraine, but also by the need to emphasize the originality of this tradition and its preservation in the conditions of a military threat.

 Taking this into account, the purpose of the article is to consider a number of customary and worldview phenomena that should sanction the emergence of a new family.

The object of the study is the traditional worldview and customary and ceremonial culture of the inhabitants of Pokuttia, and the subject is the customs, rites and beliefs associated with the moving of the bride to the groom’s home in this area.

Among them are the customs of «pijmytsia» (equipment of a group of people from the groom’s family, who were supposed to bring the young daughter-in-law to his home), «brama» (the treat of the lads from the village with «mohorych»), «vykup» (giving gifts to the bride’s brothers), «druzhchyny» and «pliesanie» (dancing of the groom and bride, best man and bridesmaid, the feasting of best men and «bojars»), «vino» (collection of the bride’s dowry), «pryvodyny» (meeting the bride in the groom’s house), «propij» (visiting the bride in the new house, giving gifts to the groom’s family).

The basis for the investigation are the materials of the author’s field research during 2013—2014 in the villages of Kolomyjs’kyj, Horodenkivs’kyj, Sniatyns’kyj, Tlumats’kyj and Tysmenyts’kyj districts of Ivano-Frankivs’k oblast’, as well as archival materials and works of the end of nineteenth and the beginning of twenty-first centuries.

The methodology of this work is based on general scientific methodological principles and the basic requirements that apply to the works of historical and ethnological direction.

It was found out that the ethnolocal version of the wedding customs of Pokuttia has got specific Ukrainian features. At the same time it conserves the distinctive manifestation.

Keywords: customs, rites, traditions, wedding, groom, bride, best man, bridesmaid, Pokuttia.

Received 29.08.2024

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