Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Patrimoniu multietnic (Satu Mare, 2009)
were mingled with many customs. For the Ukrainians of Ugocea and Transcarpatina, family was basic in shaping character and mentality. Women had the dominant role, which can be seen in the customs and wedding rituals, in the witty couplets performed at weddings, receiving the wife in the house, the moanings, washing the deceased, guessing on the day of St. Andrew. On The Annunciation Day (Blagovişcenia), women would bathe in the river, until sunrise, to be beautiful and to get married. On the day of the Sânziene (a holiday celebrated in summer, on the 24th of June) (Ivandely) women would wash their faces with the morning dew to be beautiful, and on the day of the “Birth of St. John the Baptist”, they used magic for a good crop, or the premarital magic. The existence of the female element in the Ukrainian national psychology is an expression of feelings and emotions reflected in particular in the countryside vocabulary. The features of the Ukrainian character (lyricism, tenderness, kindness), are closer to the feminine character, which determined a certain vision about the world, that makes them special from other ethnic groups. They weren’t radical in judgment, they were more 130 Fete ucrainiene Українські дівчата Ukrán lány Ukrainian girls like passive, showing tolerance towards other religions, this latter aspect being determined by the specific of the area, namely the coexistence with
