Ljubov, seksualnost i kazna vo makedonskata tradicionalna kultura
Love, Sexuality and Punishment in Macedonian Traditional Culture

Summary/Abstract: The love, sexuality and the punishment in the Macedonian traditional culture is considered onthe basic of the ethnological-anthropological analyze. The analyze is based on the oral stories, ritual practices and oral poetry, which I take as means of communication. The love and the loveemotions were in accordance with social and cultural criteria of the community in which occurred.This means that the love emotions, primarily the sexual emotions, had to be controlled, or to beshown as much as the traditional culture allowed. In general this was meant for the women andthe maidens, „a woman’s chastity”, that implies the women’s purity and innocence. Otherwisethe punishment commences. The betrayed young woman that has totally surrendered to the loveemotions or the unjustly accused wife of infidelity is reaching towards the curse in order to satisfythe justice.

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