A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 20. - Száz éve alakult a Békéscsabai Múzeum-Egyesület (Békéscsaba, 1999)

Laurinyeczné Sinkó Rozália: Customs and suppositions attached to pregnancy and infancy in Füzesgyarmat

A terhességhez és kisgyermekkorhoz kötődő hiedelmek és szokások Füze s gyarmaton Customs and suppositions attached to pregnancy and infancy in Füzesgyarmat - Laurinyeczné Sinkó Rozália Résumé The publication of data above about customs and suppositions of the turnings of the human life - wedding, christening ceremony, funeral - is a part of a collection's result. Füzesgyarmat inhabited by mostly Chalvinists with population of nearly 6000 people is a typical Sárrétian settlement on the north part of Békés county. Its natural circumstances, matrimonial connections, relationship annex it to Nagysárrét, its economy, historical development to villages of Békés Sárrét. The supposition circle connected to pregnancy, birth and infancy can be still good approached during field-work. The rememberances of childhood preserve the traditional worth loosening gradually since the beginning of this century. Magic procedures performed in the interests of successful blessing for getting children, healthy descendants spun round the life of the young wife since the beginning of her marriage, and their role growned in the period of confinement what was considered especially dangerous. Unfortunatelly there isn't any comparing data at our disposal from villages of Kis-Sárrét. Irrational activities, course of christening ceremony, sponsorship collected in Füzesgyarmat correspond to noted down by Bartha Elek in Biharnagybajom in the neighbourhood and by Madar Ilona in Sárrétudvari. Communal duty of midwife requires additional research, how she connected the folk and official therapy in addition to whiteduty what was general all over Alföld. There was called scientist's attention to necessity of cartographic Sárrét-research even in the 70s years. (Translated by Scháferné Веке Katalin) 187