De la Dragobete la Sf. Valentin sau Despre cum o sărbătoare importată resuscitează una tradiţională
From 'Dragobete' to Valentine's Day or On How an Imported Holiday Can Revive a Traditional One

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims at a comparative analysis of the two highly promoted 'holidays' nowadays. The approach starts from the scientific bases of the specialised literature (works written by Romulus Vulcănescu, Ion Ghinoiu, Gheorghe Pavelescu, Avram Cristea) in order to present the mythical, symbolical, (pre-)Christian implications of the Romanian holiday, then analyses the results of a questionnaire regarding the (non-)existence of any relation between the two celebrations mentioned above. The instruments used are those belonging to the ethno-folkloric field, supported by the questionnaire method and the results analysis.

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