Recluziunea iniţiatică a fetei de măritat din folclorul literar românesc
Initiation Reclusion of the Young Girl to Get Married Within the Romanian Literary Folklore

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the preliminary stage of the feminine initiation, when the girl is taken out from her familiar world and dies in a symbolic manner. Being complementary to the masculine process, girls’ initiation is static and nocturnal. Fairy-tales show a physiological change for the secluded princesses, while the winter solstices songs reveal a maid fallen into a heavy sleep, as a metaphor for the spiritual journey to mythical times. Together with the girls who foretell their death, these neophytes can enter the main phase of initiation only by experiencing physical dissolution.

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