A szabófalvi hejgetés emlékei

The Memory of an Old New Year Chant ("hejgetés") in Szabófalva

Faragó, József

Csetri Elek

Dávid Gyula

Faragó József

Mócsy László

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2013-01-21T08:43:36Z

2013-01-21T08:43:36Z

1996

1996

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újév

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The so called "hejgetés" is the most archaic form of the New Year customs in the Hungarian folklore. The word itself is derived from the interjection "hej", the lexical means to express an exclamation, to make noise in the New Year chant. This custom which used to be wide spread among the Northern csángós died out about a century ago as a result of the influence of the majority Romanian population. It was replaced by a Romanian custom of a different genre having the same function called "urálás" ("urare" in Romanian). In these circumstances, having looked it up in all the Hungarian dictionaries as well as in archive documents of ethnographical research work done on location, the author found only five villages in which the name of the custom is still remembered. The New Year Chant itself is even less known, only four fragments of its text are to be found, all of them come from Szabófalva, the central village of the Northern csángós. These fragments are undoubtably among the oldest documents of the Hungarian folklore, but exactly because of their fragmentary nature and cryptic metaphors their meaning is ambiguous. Hungarian folklorists are trying to interpret them by comparing them to similar customs of the peoples living in the surrounding area and in the East.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10598/25314

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