marți, 3 octombrie 2017

Mythical dogs and legendary dogs from Romanian folklore and culture. Romanian mythology. Part 1



Molda lady dog appears in the Romanian folklore "in a legend about Dragoş Voda the founder of the Moldavian Voivodeship. "[1]

The Dolca lady dog appears in the Romanian folklore "in a popular ballad called Dolca, this ballad was picked by V. Alecsandri."[2]

In the Romanian folklore there is mythical dog named: Puppy of the Earth.
This dog appears in the Romanian folklore anecdote called "Incidents with Păcală collected by C. Rădulescu-Codin and Şt. Del. Tuţescu, Dăfii, in the volume Also Păcală."[3]
The Puppy of the Earth in Romanian mythology "brings bad luk to the one who sees it random and is the one who, through the strong barking, with a loud voice of european bison, prevents death. He controls the graves and bites the nose or ears deaths if they have not been buried respecting the customs."[4]

In the Romanian folklore there are mythical dogs called: See-Well, Hear-Good, Easy-like-Wind Heavy-like-Earth.
These dogs appear in Romanian fairy tales. A fairy tale where appears is The Wolf-with-iron-head this fairy tale is collected from the folklore of Transylvania by writer Ioan Pop Reteganul (1853-1905).
"See-Well is the dog of Holy Wednesday, Hear-Good is the dog of Holy Friday, Easy-like-Wind Heavy-like-Earth is the dogs of Holy Sunday"[5]


[1] Ionuț Benea, Legenda căţelei Molda, animalul de moartea căruia se leagă denumirile unui râu şi a unei regiuni, în „Adevărul” , www.adevarul.ro/locale/iasi/legenda-catelei-molda-animalul-moartea-caruia-leaga-denumirile-unui-rau-regiuni-1_51691503053c7dd83f036b7e/index.html, accesat la data de 3.08.2017.
[2] Dolca, www.ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Dolca, accesat la data de 3.08.2017.
[3] Păcală și isprăvile lui, Editura Steaua Nordului, Constanța, 2012, p. 115.
[4] Cățelul Pământului, www.deieri-deazi.blogspot.ro/2015/07/catelul-pamantului-tt.html, accesat la data de 17.07.2017.
[5] Ioan Pop Reteganul, Povești Ardelenești, Editura Dacia Educațional, Cluj-Napoca, 2005, p. 134.

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