Moartea ca mare trecere în cultura românească

Abstract

Death is obviously a controversial subject and all the more frightening the more we taboo it. We all know that we owe a death, and the important thing is to realize that it is a natural phenomenon, to which we have a balanced reporting. Before, people had direct contact with the dead and, by implication, with death. It was a whole ritual of washing the loved one, of dressing him in new clothes, of ritual mourning, of placing some symbolic objects to accompany the sleeping one in the world beyond. It was inappropriate, in the popular Romanian tradition, to inquire about your death, even to call it by name, assuming that you call it by simply naming it. But there were a lot of warning signs, from the cracking of objects around the house, to the singing of birds or premonitory dreams.