Original scientific paper

The symbolics of bread on special occasions

Manda Svirac ; Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper deals with the research and study of bread, rolls and cakes in Croatian customs, based on written sources from the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The author studies their symbolics when they are given as gifts, in the context of birth, marriage and burial customs. The outcome of this study is the discovery of the belief of the Croats in the present and future life whose keeper is, in the first place, a woman.

Keywords

symbolism of bread; gift; birth; marriage; death

Hrčak ID:

75771

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75771

Publication date:

22.6.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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