| Sorcova "Sorcova"
is a bouquet used for New Year's wishes. Children wish to the people a happy New Year
while touching them lightly with this bouquet.
Maria Dumitru, School 10 Focsani, Romania
It is a children's tradition of invoking the divinity of vegetation for the
health and wealth of the host in the morning of the first day of the New Year.
The 10 - year old children, after they have wished a happy New Year to the members of the
family, go to their neighbors and relatives. "Sorcova" is made up of one or
several fruit - tree twinges (apple-tree, pear-tree cherry-tree, plum-tree); all of them
are put into water, in warm place, on November 30th, in order to bud and to blossom on new
year's Eve. Nowadays people use an apple-tree or pear-tree twig decorated with colored
paper and flowers made up of colored paper, too.
"Sorcova" is a symbol of fertility, health and purity. The children touch
everybody slightly with "sorcova", wishing them to blossom like apple-tree and
pear-tree, to live and grove old like these and to be as strong as a stone or as
iron.
The children get all kinds of gifts such as: cakes, honeycombs, biscuits, pretzels,
candies, money.
"Colindatul" - this is the most spread and complex of all our customs.
The carol "Sorcova"
Sorcova, vesela,
Să trăiti, să-mbătrâniti,
Ca un măr, ca un păr,
Ca un fir de trandafir,
Tare ca piatra,
Iute ca săgeata,
Tare ca fierul,
Iute ca otelul,
Peste vară, primavară,
Nici capul să nu te doară,
La anu' si la multi ani ! |
Sorcova care se cântă la geam De când domnul s-a născut,
Si pământul s-a făcut,
Si cerul s-a ridicat,
Pe patru stâlpi de argint,
Mai frumos l-a împodobit,
Numai stele măruntele,
La mijlocul stelelor,
Sfânta lună cu lumină,
Sfântul soare cu dogoare,
La portita raiului, |
Sade floarea-soarelui,
Si cu spicul grâului,
Si judecă florile,
Ce-a făcut miroasele
Le-au tăiat cu coasele
Si le-au făcut buchetele,
Si le-au dat la cuconele,
Busuioc verde pe masă,
Rămâi gazdă sănătoasă,
Busuioc verde-nflorit,
Rămâi doamne fericit. |
- Lavinia Neata & Dan Selea, "Stirbei Voda" Highschool Calarasi,
Romania
- Teacher coordinator: Marinela Dinca
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