Pages: 217-228 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp235217228 

The article uses field survey finds collected by the author during her ethno-linguistic studies in villages from Zaječar and Bor counties (Serbia) in spring and summer of 2022. The article tells about the custom of dancing memorial hora (ora) that exists in Romanian villages in the Eastern Serbia. This custom can be observed on certain dates after death or on cetain calendar holidays. Field finds from Eastern Serbia are compared to the data published by Romanian, Serbian and Bulgarian researchers on similar customs observed in the neighboring countries and in other parts of Serbia.

Keywords: field surveys, memorial ring dance (ora/hora de pomană), Romanians, Vlachs, customs

Information about authors:

Natalia Golant (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Candidate of historical sciences. Peter the Great museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 3, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0906-9560