We drink at engagement parties, at wedding and birthdays. Alcohol not only gave pleasure 1 but was also nourishment, medicine, and an important agent in social and ritual practices: “Old people and youngsters drink alcohol they drink during the summer to cool down and in winter to warm up! (.) We drink when someone is born, showing our happiness we drink, out of grief, when someone dies. “There hardly goes by a day without us drinking some alcohol,” said four Romanian peasants during the ethnographic field research conducted in 2016, a state of affairs confirmed by folklore and medical records. Thus the treatment of alcoholism was based on empirical and magical medicine.Īlcohol and alcoholism in traditional Romanian culture When people became ill they found hope in prayers or in the secret knowledge of initiated women.
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