The tradition of marriage in Hungary has changed a lot since the beginning. Let’s start at the beginning, when the bachelor wanted to woo his sweetheart, he brought her a gift to prove his love. The gift did not mean that the girl was committed, as they could decide anything up to the moment of …
By folk medicine we mean, from an ethnographic point of view, the tradition of understanding the causes of diseases, the symptoms they cause and the ways of treating them in the peasant world. Its knowledge is two-sided, including the experience of diseases and the procedures and instructions for their cure. Folk medicine cannot be dissociated …
A superstition is a belief in which a certain fact has a mystical or magical explanation or just a cultural explanation, enforced by society or religion, without any scientific basis, the belief in spirits, charms, spells, omens, objects that bring good luck, supernatural forces. Some known superstitions in Romanian: Don’t sit on the corner of …
Folk medicine was based on herbalism. In every village there were ‘grandmothers’, ‘witches’ (women) or ‘whisperers’ (women and men). These were people dedicated to healing the sick and warding off evil spells. It was believed that only the eldest of the siblings (the first-born) could practice this profession. However, by calling them this, the people …
