Székelykevei lakodalmi szokások (Adatközlés)
Wedding Customs from Skorenovac (Data Collection)

Summary/Abstract: During 2018. the 135th year is celebrated since the arrival of Sekelis from Bukovina to these areas. Familiar with our history, we are aware that our ancestors escaped to Moldova because the massacre threat in Madefalva and settled down in Bukovina. After one hundred years spent in Bukovina, due to difficult life conditions they were settled down to the lower Danube basin. The village of Skorenovac was formed during these settling down. In this work, which is based on personal memories, as well as on the memories of people from Skorenovac, I wanted to describe wedding customs of Sekelis. The basis of the work is the graduation paper written in 1995 while I was studying in Subotica to be a folk dance educator. In my work I tried to record wedding ceremonies from Skorenovac based on the stories of several informants. Even on that occasion I used personal memories, since as a girl I was interested in wedding customs, and like every Sekeli girl of that time, I truly followed all the happenings during wedding days. In addition, I also recorded memories of my own wedding which took place in 1993. During the collection of data some of my informants told me about wedding customs before the Second World War, while the majority talked about the next period, about weddings from the second half of the 20th century. At that time the marriage customs of ethnic communities living in the village had already begun to combine and had formed a unique, wedding practice with colourful customs that the villagers called sekeli wedding. The folk tradition in this form reached its highlight during the eighties and nineties of the last century, and then in the new millenium changed again and impoverished in custom practice. In my work I mainly describe the most picturesque wedding customs, since I have experienced them myself. My work can also be viewed as a recording of personal memories which is truly emphasized by the way and style of my writing.

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