Badnje gobinjanje i kićenje u kulturnoj baštini Hrvata
Christmas Eve custom of gobinjanje and adornment in Croatian cultural heritage

Summary/Abstract: This paper lists and interprets around forty examples of Christmas Eve custom of gobinjanje and adornment in a multidisciplinary way. Once greenery, usually ivy, laurel and olive branches, was used to attire: homes, stables, courtyards, fields, orchards, olive groves, apiaries, Yule logs, cemeteries. Greenery adornment had an apotropaic and aesthetic function. Information about Christmas Eve gobinjanje and adornment in Croatian traditional culture in scientifi c and professional literature are insufficient. There are about ten examples of that kind in this paper. Therefore, the paper lists over thirty contemporary notes which have been recorded in Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republic of Montenegro during the period from 2007 to 2013. In average, informants are eightyyears old. The paper also lists a couple of Serbian and Russian orthodox customs.

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