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Some of
the customs kept to this day and on a large area of Mures county,
are: the custom of carolling from Christmas Eve until after the New
Year (until the Twelfth Day), that is kept in the majority of the
villages from Mures county; the custom of wishing well with the Christmas
star, with the "plugusorul" (little plough) and "sorcova"
(branch or stick adorned with artificial flowers) on New Year's Eve,
(in the case of children); the custom of going with the "turca"
(also named goat in some localities from the Gurghiu Valley) on Christmas
Eve: Idicel Sat, Idicel Padure, Vatava, Bistra Muresului, Deleni,
Pietris, Jabenita, Ripa de Jos, Sacalu de Padure, Ibanesti, Dumbrava
etc; "Laturenii" - a Christmas carolling custom in Luieriu,
Sacalu de Padure, Dumbrava etc; "Prostii" (the masked ones)
- a New Year's custom - Idicel Sat, Idicel Padure; the Moving of the
Gates on the New Year - generally the Superior Mures Valley; "Chiraleisa"
- a custom of wishing well of the children in the morning of the Twelfth
Day - in localities from the Superior Mures Valley, but also from
the Plain region; "Vergelul" or "virgilitul" -
in the night of the New Year (or on the evenings of the Advent) -
a magical practice of young girls of finding out the predestined husband
- spread in the past on the whole territory of Mures county, kept
in the present only in a few localities; Sprinkling the Girls on Easter
- in localities with a Hungarian population; Jumping into the Easter
water - Ungheni and the surrounding localities; The first ploughman
or the holiday of the ploughman - the Gurghiu Valley, Logig etc; Shouting
over the village at Singeorz (Sfântu Gheorghe, 24th of April)
or on Shrove Tuesday - the Superior Mures Valley, the Gurghiu Valley,
the Plain region, on the two Tirnava; Going out to the cornfield on
Whitsuntide - Taureni, Chimitelnic; Running with the horses on Whitsuntide
and Shooting the rooster - German customs at Uila, Batos etc; Wetting
the wives - Hodac, on the second day of Whitsuntide; the Wheat coronet
at harvest - the Superior Mures Valley, the Tirnave region, the Plain
region; "Sinzienele" - 25th of June - the Suprior Mures
Valley, the Gurghiu Valley, the Beica Valley, the Plain region; Running
from the mire - Faragau; shepherd's customs: measuring the sheep and
feast of the sheep - in localities with a tradition in this occupation
(shepherding) from the Superior Mures Valley and the Gurghiu Valley;
the wedding customs: the callers, the flag, the walking on the large
road, the bringing of the dowry, the best man, the shriek of the hen,
the "socacitele" - in the villages from the Superior Mures
Valley, the Gurghiu Valley, the Plain region, the Tirnave region etc;
"Tremuricii" - a winter custom of young men with a moralising
character in the villages with Hungarian population: Galateni, Troita,
Laslau Mic, the Niraj Valley in general and the bat with the ashes
- a Hungarian custom that is practiced in the second day of Easter
also in the Niraj Valley region; the harnessing of young men not married
in time to the log - a custom practiced on Whitsuntide in villages
with Hungarian population from the Niraj Valley; Masked carnival (farsang)
- 25th of February, a custom spread in many localities with Hungarian
population from Mures county.
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| Traditional evening
sittings of village women from the Upper Mures set to stage |
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| From the custom of
carolling with the "turca" on Christmas |
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| From the wedding custom |
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