H. Szilasi Ágota - Várkonyi Péter - Bujdosné Pap Györgyi - Császi Irén (szerk.): Agria 50. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2017)
Lukács László : Pünkösdi zöldág-hordás
Ujváry Zoltán 1973 A török alakja a magyar dramatikus népszokásokban. A Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1971. Debrecen, 419-438. 1975 Varia Folkloristica. írások a néphagyomány köréből. (Hajdú-Bihar Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 25.) Debrecen. 1990 Farsang. (Néprajz egyetemi hallgatóknak 5.) Kossuth Lajos Tudomány- egyetem Néprajzi Tanszéke, Debrecen. Vankóné Dudás Juli 1983 Falum Galgamácsa. (Studia Comitatensia 12.). Pest Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága, Szentendre. László Lukács THE CARRYING OF GREEN BRANCHES ON WHIT MONDAY In the village of Gyúró (County Fejér) the custom of carrying green branches on Whit Monday was alive until the 1940s. On Whit Sunday’s afternoon,youngmen carried a bundle of green willow branches to the house of their fiancée, or their beloved. The girls decorated the long haft of a whitener with green branches, peony, lilac, ribbons and rose-painted cloth. At the dawn ofWhit Monday, the boys came on horseback to the girls’ house for the green branch. The riders got together outside of the village and rode with the decorated green branches into the village in a bandérium of30-40 boys. After marching through all of the villages streets, they returned to their meeting point. There the first boy gave the signal, whereas every boy made haste with the green branch to their beloveds house. The fiancé gave the branch to his fiancée, then he was invited in the house and was fed. The other boys pinned the green branch to the gates of the girls’ house. If the girl liked the boy’s approach, she chatted with him for a while through the fence and placed the branch to the wall of the kitchen. After the carrying of the green branches, the youth of the village finished the green carnival (the time between Easter and Pentecost) with a dance party in the pub. The tradition of the carrying of green branches in Gyúró originated in the Middle Ages, its comparisons can be found in many parts of the Carpathian Basin. Its important element, the ride of the boys, is a reminder of the election of medieval kings on Whit Monday. During Pentecost, the boys organized a horse race, whose victor was crowned the king of Pentecost. His reign lasted for one year. During this time, he was invited to all the weddings and parties in the town, he could drink for free in the pub, his livestock was watched by the shepherds for free and he was not punished for any misdeed. He was the first boy of the town. 159
