A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 42. (2003)

Demeter Éva: Húsvéti üdvözlőlapok a Zempléni Múzeumban

Keszeg Vilmos 1996 Kelt levelem... Egy mezőségi parasztasszony levelezése. Debrecen Kresz Mária 1971 Emberkorsók. Adatok az antropomorf korsók funkcióihoz. Ethn. LXXXII. 3-31. Kunt Ernő 1987 Nép-rajz és foto-antropológia. Ethn. XCVIII. 1-47. Lukács László 1981 Húsvéti korbácsolás. Ethn. XCII. 2-3., 374-399. Petercsák Tivadar 1994 A képes levelezőlap története. Miskolc Pozsony Ferenc 1997 Az erdélyi szászok jeles napi szokásai. Csíkszereda Rapcsányi László 1986 Karácsony régi képeslapokon. Bp. Voigt Vilmos 1990 A folklorizmusról. Néprajz egyetemi hallgatóknak 9. Debrecen Weiner Piroska 1981 Faragott mézeskalácsformák. Bp. Wislockiné Dörfler Fanni 1895 Kakas, tyúk és tojás a magyar néphitben. Ethn. VI. 205-213 Zakariás Erzsébet 2000 Asszonyélet Erdővidéken. Marosvásárhely EASTER GREETINGS IN THE ZEMPLÉN MUSEUM This study treats of the functions of the picture postcards in the society, who was make in the Zemplén Museum. The greetings make the part of postcards, which related with religious feasts. The relatives, friends mediate there greetings with the picture postcards at different occasion. In the folk culture to take photographs and to send picture postcards are complementary activities: at religious feasts the picture postcards were sent, at harvest, vintage and confirmations snapshots were taken. Some picture postcards (sometime in the case of the Easter greetings too) are reproductions of photographies (picture nr. 6). The most important element of the Easter, the egg is amplified (4., 8., 14., 5. pictures). The things, which are represented - decanters, towels were donated to the poor men at funeral feast (picture nr. 9). The poor men on the Easter greetings are represented by animal personages (picture nr.12). The swinging time was Easter, because to swing was a ritual action, it substituted the sacrifice (picture nr. 1). The 13

th picture illustrate the Slovakian flogging custom, the third picture représente the saxon originated egg-tree, the second picture the wreath, and the 7

th the Italian „eggs on the clothes". The Dutch motifs expanded in Hungary because of the picture postcards (picture nr. 11). There are pseudo-greetings which represant feats of engineering like vechicles (picture nr. 10). The picture postcards contributed to globalisation process, but to a lesser degree then the publicity. Eva Demeter 581