Mother' s Dear Babies - Visit of women at Aromanians

 Versiune în Limba Română AICI.

A special event with an immense joy in the Aromanian family was and is the birth of a boy, a future shepherd (picurar). It considers that the boy is the one who carry on the name of the family. At Aromanians exists the custom that the person who brings the news (sîhîrichea) is honored (miscut) by ​​relatives. When sîhîrichea announces the birth of a boy is obviously better rewarded. Today the news usually is brought by children who compete to be best rewarded. After a few days of birth, relatives (only women) come to congratulate the mother and child, and those who live in the house, bringing their different gifts (are said to go cu tigănile – with donuts). To protect mother and child, the bed is surrounded with a red thread. The baptism in church could take place and at three years depending on the material possibilities of family or godparents.

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)

Sequence from the temporary exhibition Mother' s Dear Babies  (Ethnographic and Folk Art Museum Tulcea)