When somebody dies the family will hold many requiems: right after, 6 weeks after, 1 year after, every year after, at some special days and so on. And a Romanian requiem has to include a large, sumptuous food serving, almost like a party (but no music and no dance, of course). In this village apparently someone rich died, as the requiem was excessively large, even the photographer received a bread.
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Actually there are a lot more requiems: at 3 days (usually the burial day), 9 days, 40 days, 3, 6 and 9 months, 1 year and then yearly until 7 years have passed. Most of the peasants respect the tradition and organize all of them and, usually, they are very generous in this day with anyone who might pass by.
ReplyDeleteAnd "simbata mortilor" (Saturday of the Dead), how many times a year it is? at least twice, I believe
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