WHY ROMANIAN MYTHOLOGY IS SO WEIRD
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Romanian mythology, deeply rooted in Romanian culture and traditions, encompasses a rich tapestry of folk tales and mythical creatures. Within Transylvania, a region renowned for its folklore, tales of strigoi and other supernatural beings abound. These creatures, alongside a myriad of Romanian mythical creatures, populate the Eastern European folklore landscape. Romanian folk stories reflect the resilience and creativity of the people, often weaving elements of nature and everyday life into captivating narratives. Through these tales, Romanian culture and traditions are preserved and celebrated, offering insights into the region's history and beliefs. Transylvanian traditions, influenced by a blend of cultures, contribute to the diverse tapestry of Eastern European folk tales and fairy tales, showcasing the enduring legacy of storytelling in the region.
00:00 - 02:07 Intro & Greetings
02:07 - 04:23 Romanian Mythology in a Nutshell
04:23 - 07:43 The World of Romanian Folk Tales
07:43 - 14:07 Characters
14:07 - 17:50 Animals & Plants
17:50 - 26:37 Monsters
26:37 - 30:46 Fairies
30:46 - 32:17 Ending
#RomanianMythology #RomanianMythologyCreatures #StrigoiRomanianMythology #RomanianMythicalCreatures #RomanianFolkloreCreatures #RomanianFolkStories #RomanianCulture #RomanianTraditions #RomanianFolkTales #TransylvaniaFolk #TransylvaniaRegion #TransylvanianTraditions #EasternEuropeanFolklore #EasternEuropeanCulture #EasternEuropeanFolkTales #EasternEuropeanFairyTales
Topics:
romanian mythology
romanian mythology creatures
strigoi romanian mythology
romanian mythical creatures
romanian folklore creatures
romanian folk stories
romanian culture
romanian traditions
romanian folk tales
transylvania folk
transylvania region
transylvanian traditions
eastern european folklore
eastern european culture
eastern european folk tales
eastern european fairy tales
Check out this little documentary about EASTERN EUROPEAN TRADITIONS: ruclips.net/video/VVMvjgAJYdU/видео.html
It was my favorite video to work on, but RUclips didn't promote it at all.
It's so difficult to find reliable and in depth information about romanian folklore and traditions in english. I loved this video!
Glad it was helpful!
My mother and grandmother are Romanian, I moved to America when I was was very young. So learning anything about that side of my family is oh so important. Thank you for your videos
Hey RUclips, I'm still interested in Anna's content.
I am more interested in Anna. I wonder if she is still single.
@@CheckmateSurvivor smooth....
Amazing presentation! I love Romania's cultural practices and folk tales, and it's great to finally see the mythology behind it
5 likes during premiere, Anna fell off😔
The video was interesting and enjoyable, keep up the good work!
Just discovered Anna. 💖
This was really well researched! Very, very interesting. I know nothing of Romanian mythology. I subscribe to your channel. I am 2% Romanian according to the DNA test. This was very helpful. Thank you!
That was fascinating, funny, and very compelling! ❤
Love Love Love this !!!!!! Thanks!!! Great content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
14:20 ”Înstruțatul boului” (crowning oxen) is related with the "fire" Taurids meteor shower at Rusalii/Rusalka (Pentecost) in June-July... while in October-November we have another Taurids meteor shower connected with the fire celebration of Sâmedru (Saint Demetrius, Deus Mithra - slayer of bulls).. aka Halloween/Samhain... Jack o'lantern, when the Saints are marching in... and so on.
I need to mention that in Romania we have two "Haloweens":
1 - "Fire of" Samedru on October 25-26th (when the gates of the Underworld are opened and people mourn their love ones in cemeteries... basically "when the saints are marching in")...
2- Saint Andrew, on November 30th (Saint Apostle Andrew - "the first one who was called" .. also patron saint of Romania - is the same as Odin/ Wotan/ Saturn/ Cronus/ Zamolxis/ Moloch/ Saint Nicholas/ Santa Claus/ Krampus... patron of wolves and ravens. eater of his own - cooked in fire - children)... ho-ho-ho ("aho, aho children and brothers") down the chimney, and eating "Gingerbrean Man" cookies.
Well I am personally extremely pleased to know that such a great thing as The Bear 🐻 Dance exists, and hope Anna does another amazing project entirely dedicated to exploring it 😊
Great vid, thank u for doing this kind of content
I just happened to stumble upon your channel I subscribed, it looks very interesting! I also have a friend who's from Romania his name is Radu.
Great informative and interesting video as usual!
I hope you eventually cover other Slavic nations' mythologies as well..
Thank you for continuing to make content Anna! This video was really good!
Na mișto👍🏻
Interesting! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ms. LeWild. Great video. I loved it. My only complaint is, please, please, cite your sources. Where did you get the info? The footage that looks like a video game set in a cemetery with colourful crosses, is that from a released game? Is it your own creation? 😁
Happy I found you and your content.
Foarte bine facut Anna. Continua! Ar fi bine sa dai link-uri la sursele de informare. Bravo!
Romanian mythology isn't weird as the rest of Europe's mythology isn't weird, they all represent old folk stories to warn, explain and celebrate and a lot of it is vaguely similar across Europe and the world, just each region does it slightly differently. Like spirits to warn people not to wander into the forest or water like the WItcher nekkers and Finnish näkki, giants and spirits to explain why rocks, mountains and trees slightly resemble humans to our eyes, crâznic to explain babies born with "pig-like" abnormalities and how to (horrifyingly) deal with them, the winter celebrations with costumes like the goat and evil spirits throughout Europe which Polish fashion history RUclipsr Karolina Żebrowska looked at, Summer Solstice celebrations like Sânziene or Drăgaică (as it is known in Wallachia and Moldova) celebrated as Midsummer festivals, Bulgarians and Romanians both share Mărțișor or Baba Marta to celebrate the coming of Spring, Moldavians from Bessarabia gift the șnur to men too.
Something different compared to the rest of Europe is that we believe that God made man out of clay: "Sixth day : God created the living things of the earth. God brings forth the animals of the earth ("wild beasts after their kind, and domestic animals after their kind, and every creeping thing of the earth after its kind"). Then God creates man from clay, in his image and likeness, and breathes life into him."
Another interesting thing about Romania are the loan translations like with the double meaning of Slavic svĕtŭ (meaning both world and light) gave rise to the development of Romanian lume ("world") from Latin lumen ("light"). The semantic development of certain inherited Latin words was due to Slavic influence. For instance, the Latin word for life (vita) developed into the Romanian term for cattle (vită) following the pattern of Old Church Slavonic životŭ ("being" and "animal").
Pentiment is a great historical game set in a Bavarian town and it presents how borders weren't as restrictive as we know them today, a lot of people have traveled across Europe creating a great diversity of characters (Ethiopian priest, romani traveler etc.) and folklore and old traditions. It might be one of the only games that come with a reading list.
dude she was born around Cluj
@@Mr-__-Sy Yeah, I was giving more information, I have no clue how much she or her viewers might know so I was slightly more thorough.
I have to try Pentiment, sounds like an interesting game.
Have you played Gray Dawn? It's a survival horror game made by a Romanian independent game studio and its filled with Romanian folklore imagery and references to East Orthodox traditions.
@@AnnaLeWild Gray Dawn was great for what it was trying to do visually and artistically, an attempt to portray Romanian folklore and religion, it was fantastic for an indie dev, but it was confusing and not that scary for a horror game, now what I'm curious is how are the developers going to continue, but it would seem like this is their only game like this which is disappointing,
Another Romanian horror game kinda like Gray Dawn is Last Days of Lazarus, again weird and not that scary and I don't think it incorporates Romanian folklore enough to be as compelling as Gray Dawn.
Another great Romanian folklore game is Yaga (with a lot of great Romanian music that you might recognize), something like a rogue-like. Another Balkan slavic folklore game that's just a demo rn is Marko: Beyond Brave, a metroidvania. Great Romanian games that slightly touch on some folklore, but must be recommended is Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure and their next game they're developing Near-Mage, point and click adventure games.
Pathologic is another Russian game that delves into steppe folklore (speaking of steppes, it's interesting how the steppe plains expand all the way into Romania and past it isn't it)
The best and most quintessential Eastern European game out there and my favourite game of all time is Disco Elysium, from the most innocuous detail like the police being called a citizen's militia to navigating being stuck in a cold war between two big players with opposing economic systems behind them. It was so successful it inspired a bunch of games and even inspired Honkai Star Rail's writing. One of these games is the Polish game The Thaumaturge set in interbelic Warsaw.
Another game with great and funny writing is the Slovak JRPG Felvidek set in Hungarian empire Slovakia.
I could recommend a bunch of other Eastern European games, but I'll stop myself at just these to avoid getting too off-topic.
Fascinating. Are there tales about different supernatural romanian entities interacting with each other? I definitely will bug my romanian friend Alina about her native mythology.
Indeed, I am most interested in the scary monsters. Love the whole video so far.
I love this!!!❤
Just found you! Love the video. I look forward to seeing more.
Just found your video, and it was great! Like another commenter mentioned, trying to find info on Romanian folklore/traditions in english is a bit difficult, so seeing this pop up was awesome.
Also, you have a very pleasant voice; which is always a bonus when listening to these types of videos.
Super!
bumpy bump. nice find. comment for the algorythm
Szép munka volt a youtube
6:35 Regarding the feasting tradition during the Pastele Blajinilor in Moldova, I know that it's not very common even around Eastern Europe, but spread in the Russian side of the continent. So I once stumbled upon a video discussing slavic funeral rituals and it turns out that the tradition to make a feast on the grave and have a recollection day for all the deceased buried at that particular grave is coming from the Kurgan culture.
Yeeeesssss
Kartvelians mentioned!
I'm always shocked how similar some narratives and characters are to Caucasian mythologies especially to Kartvelian, but Romania is just on the Other side of the Black Sea and part of same historical drama.
Love to learn more and find more similarities with Georgian and Romanian mythologies
Bravo
Just found you, good stuff. I suppose the algorithm gives sometimes too.
i love hearing abt my country. the video was great! just subscribed.
what s the game that keeps appearing throughout the video?
Hello Anna! Thank you for the great video! I would like to ask the name of the games that were included in your video (except the Resident Evil).
Kooool!
Hmh! Trebuie s-ă recunosc, n-am știut majoritatea personajelor și temelor folclorice (sau care o fi termenul potrivit în contextul acesta, că ori care o fii nu-l știu) pe care le-ai discutat în acest videoclip. Mulțumesc! Sper că o s-ă faci mai multe în viitor pentru inculți ca mine.
Nimeni nu m-a învățat aceste tradiții
Oh... Romanian. I misread as Roman. Still, now I'm here I may as well watch something new :)
Drum&Bass fuck yeah. There was this video of this Russian(?) guy with blue shoes shuffling and he looks exactly like me, so I had to learn it too.
an offering to satiate the almighty yt algorhythm, good shit
16:30 Capra "she-goat" dance is related with Capricorn zodiacal sign in December-January.
I have a question for you, I am sorry if it is stupid- but I have listened to many Folk music from Balkans, and am planning to move to Croatia next year I am learning Violin but would love to learn a folk Instruments from this region- Do you have any interesting musical instrument I could learn while there? By the way your video was very good.
If you're playing the violin other bowed instruments are Balkan Fiddle/gadulka, gusle/lahuta.
But with a violin you'll have a lot of fun learning how to play it in a balkan style, it's a party instrument and very popular because it's one of a few stringed instruments without frets, allowing for the play with microtones which is very important for Balkan music. The instrument is so important for parties that we even adopted the Stroh violin or Stroviol or as we call it in Romania Vioara cu Goarna, which basically adds a horn to the violin so it's louder for an already loud party.
A Hungarian/Romanian fretless lute is the cobza. A very widespread wind instrument in the Balkans, Middle East and beyond is the ney.
Another bowed instrument is the cretan lyra
But also in the same area they say something along the Women is not a men ;). Also love your "diverse" accent I mean the Orias ;) . Would love to see more like you who unite all etnic lines when they speaks about actual Romania
3:45 fun fact about english: they have a name for what Manole did, immurement also called immuration.
Hey, I live there!
At 2:37, the closed captions say "gifting mercy shore to women in spring," but does anyone know what she actually said?
21:01 capcaunul is a big cannibal human that sometimes have magical powers. Zmeii are most time humans like Dahaka in zoroastrism. So many things you get wrong
Do you have a discord server?
As a south Romanian you usually give the rooster to you’re GODPARENTS on like religious holidays or like just the day of the dead (i think, i live in bucharest don’t judge me )
Weird? Maybe
Beautiful? Totally!!!
I misread this. I thought it was about Romulans. Good video though.
The women singing is not disimilar to Bulgarian women's choral singing.
For Romanians, the Goat plays auspiciously at the New Year", Another totemic animal that specialists say was a totemic animal endowed with magical properties was the deer. Moreover, on New Year's Eve in certain regions of the country, the Deer is played as a ritual act. More precisely for the South-Danube Thracians (3000 years ago), the deer symbolized the sun rising in the sky, while later in the Carpathian-Danubian-Pontic-Dacia area, Romania, the deer was spoken of as an animal that carries on the head , in the form of horns, the "tree of life". "For Romanians, the deer carries a fir in its horns, the Carpathian symbol of the cosmic tree".
- Another tradition known for the New Year is playing the goat. And these customs are considered archaic rituals. For specialists, the game of the Goat is one of fertility and fecundity of the soil. Where the goat plays, rich crops will spring up. The goat dies and then comes back to life, like nature. For Romanians, the goat is a symbol of luck.
- The Bear game or the veneration of the sacred animal.
The bear game so common on New Year's is, from the point of view of specialists, one of the best examples of pagan rituals preserved within a celebration that has become Christian. In fact, archaeologists have found, since the Neolithic period, statuettes and stylized objects that embodied the bear as a form of veneration of a particularly powerful and dominant animal in the Carpathian area. However, the renowned specialist Romulus Vulcănesu claims that the rituals dedicated to the bear and preserved to this day have their origins in the ancient Dacian civilization. The specialist Reys Carpenter, for etymological reasons, came to consider the Bear a totemic animal of the Dacians, just like the Wolf , the protector of the Dacians. There were rituals and ceremonies related to the Dacians' ancient cult of the Carpathian bear.
These rituals have disappeared almost all over Europe, Romania being one of the few places that still preserves these traditions, accepted and tolerated by Christianity. Specialists in anthropology and ethnography explain what actually formed the basis of these ritual manifestations that are still practiced in our country in the 21st century.
Have you even watched the video? Based on your comments, you probably didn't lol. Why the hell are you spamming the comment section of a video you clearly didn't watch?
@@hedvigjudit7350 In the clip, many characters from Romanian fairy tales appear, intertwined with traditions - the pre-Christian Sanziene, jumping over the purifying fire - a Dacian custom, the Goat, the bear dance... and other traditions. The clip is about Romania and I also brought information. The clip is beautifully made.
I like Samca.
29:48 not evil... they wait in certain night at crossovers and if they see someone with less faith in God they appear to him and tempt him . If he agrees he is generally found dead the next days somewhere close. Not evil at all...
Algorithm do ur magic
You should read the books of Antoaneta Olteanu " Mitologie Română" ,but only if you know Romanian Language .It will be translated soon,but not yet.Three large volumes and a life of real hard work.And you wanna talk about rimanian mithology in 23 minutes.Not to mention that you have no ideea about this subject. Oh dear!
Wait you expect mythology to be normal..?
These strange traditions for you are archaic, ancient, pagan traditions from our ancient ancestors. the Dacians. 2000-3000 years ago. Romania is the ancient kingdom of Dacia and our roots go back 7000-8000 years. Today's Romanians have the DNA of the populations that have succeeded each other on this territory since prehistoric times. Proven by palentology studies. Romania and Romanians are the oldest autochthonous people in Europe. So what you see is not Romanian wildness as you think, but ancestral, archaic traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. Many of them today in UNESCO. So what you see has behind it ancestry, legends and mythology. And today, kept with sanctity. Romanians still keep a 2000-year-old dance from the ancestors of the Dacians - Călusul. In UNESCO.
dude she's from a village neear Cluj
Dude the f are you smokeing? Indo-Europeans only arrived in europe like 5000 years ago. You are not decended from some ancient people. Most of your culture is slavic and roman. By this logic most americans are native couse they have like 0.0013% native american dna.
I have a feeling that you didn't actually watch the video...
@@AnnaLeWild In the clip, many characters from Romanian fairy tales appear, intertwined with traditions - the pre-Christian Sanziene, jumping over the purifying fire - a Dacian custom, the Goat, the bear dance... and other traditions. The clip is about Romania and I also brought information. I would explain what '' weird'' means. The clip is beautifully made.
And Romanians have many wonderful fairy tales and mythology . Wonderful fairy tales in which good always wins.
The Easter of the Blajins, the Caloian, the Solomonari, the Christmas and New Year celebrations in the villages (the dance of the Goat, the Deer, the bear dance, represents explanations in Romanian mythology , the Dance of the ancestors with masks coming from the graves to celebrate with those left on earth) are all pagan traditions inherited from antiquity from the Dacian ancestors , 2000 de ayears ago and which the Orthodox Church accepted alongside the religious traditions. The winter celebrations in the villages are real theater shows for the uninitiated and who attribute them to the wildness of Romanians, out of ignorance and malice. They are our roots for thousands of years . Other nations do not have such a thing. They are new peoples, without roots in history.
And we keep them and pass them on. This means an ancient race.
I absolutely love the goat and bear dances. And I agree that Blajins and Solomonars are some of the most interesting characters in Romanian mythology.
again buddy you are preaching to the choir, she's from Transylvania for Crist's sake
Dracula? Does not exist . It's just a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. A fantasy. In reality, it would be Prince Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, the Voivode of Wallachia - the Romanian Country three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often considered one of the most important rulers in Wallachian history and a national hero of Romania. He had many fights with the invading Turks. The Dracula that all the naive believe in is just an imaginary story.
I made at least 7 videos already telling people that we have nothing to do with Dracula and how much I dislike Bram Stoker lol
buddy you're hopless, what thing about she's Romanian you don't get?
Thanks for the update that no one needed or wanted. Feel smarter now asshole?
It started well but went downhill fast. While elements of fairy tales can be considered mythology they themselves are not mythology. Also you wrecked every fairy tale character out there.
Strigoi mort
💀💀💀
Still very backward thinking. Rip to all the animals killed for such nonsense beliefs.
U r vegan??
A great and fascinating topic but i cant listen to your voice. Too high pitched and this accwnt is repulsive
When you're fluent in 4 languages, monolingual people might find your accent "repulsive" 🤷♀️