Sezónnost sňatečnosti z demografického a národopisného hlediska

• Authors: Naďa Valášková

Title variants

EN

Seasonal character of nuptiality from the demographic and ethnographical point of view

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the seasonal character of nuptiality in the Czech lands with an accent on the month of May which shows, especially after the World War II, the lowermost values. It is usually connected with the superstition that the “May wedding implies an early death of one of the partners”. This superstition is known already from the period of the Roman wars, however, it had no continual influence on frequency of the May weddings in the Czech lands. As the demographic studies show, the May minimums started to be clear as late as the second half of the 1920s. The author also follows the superstition as a proverb in some Czech paremiological collections created since the19th century.

Keywords

EN

Czech lands; nuptiality; May; superstition

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 26_(68)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 171-177
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Naďa Valášková

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic