Wedding

Weddings also preserve various traditions.
The songs are performed by musicians and even by the wedding guests themselves. A varied melody, sometimes even with a varied text, is "A miresei" (To the bride), sung either at the solemn moment when the bride takes leave of her parents and her home, or when she changes her maiden head-gear for that of a wife. Her leave-taking of her former life, the description of her life in her parents' house in comparison with that in her parents-in-law's, the change from appeal to the sun a to lengthen the day, the sorrow of the mother's who loses her daughter, and the joy of the mother-in-law who acquires her as daughter-in-law, the comparison of the maidens with apples on a branch: when they ripen their number lessens; these are the topics most often encountered in the songs for the bride.

Three times round the table is a dance. This dance was formerly meant to drive away evil from the house of the young couple. A humorous addition to the traditional ritual cries- among other jocular ones- gives a quite different meaning:
Three times round the table
For the evil to go out
For the good to come in
For the young couple to live...
Like cat and dog!
On account of the profoundly worldly content of the marriage ceremony, folk customs connected with weddings are particularly subject to transformations and borrowings from outside.

Cãtãlina Iordan, Alina Micu- Mihai, Liviu Buftea
“Duiliu Zamfirescu” School, Focsani
Romania

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