The metamorphoses of the traditional therapeutic act

• Main Author: Natalia GRADINARU
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inst. Patrimoniului Cultural (IPC) 2019-12-01
• Series: Revista de Etnologie şi Culturologie
• Subjects: ethnomedicine; beliefs; rituals; healing methods; modernity.
• Online Access: http://ethnology.asm.md/wp-content/uploads/2.Gradinaru.REC_.V.26.-1.pdf

The quasi-general change of the last decades has placed its mark on all cultural levels and social media, managing to start transformations in those sectors that until recently were associated with the idea of tradition, conservatism, immobility in the face of modern science and technology. The continuous urbanization of the contemporary rural space, as well as the technical-scientific development, have induced serious changes in ethnography and magic medicine - the performances have disappeared almost completely, and the few who perform the healing act have given up the problematic initiative or have abandoned certain magical practices. , themes and motifs, the number of lyrics of the incantations was minimized and concentrated, the confidence in the enchantment and the therapeutic finality of the enchantment was lost. The systematic approach of traditional medicine has also highlighted the fact that both the rural and urban areas also resort to practicing the elements of magical medication (fumigation with tools from Flowers, bringing in houses and apartments of plants on Great Sunday, the sickness, making books with the role of an amulet, etc.) and very often with elements of natural medicine.