Inedit şi individualitate în folclorul maramureşean din ciclul celor douăsprezece zile

Our study aims to analyze the unique forms of some folklore categories, and to approach the rites of the ceremonial-ritual acts of some particularizing circulation genres from the twelve-day cycle of Maramureș folklore. We first discussed the preparatory acts carried out for the great religious holidays of the previously mentioned cycle, and we focused on the ancient Christmas tree forms discovered during our field research in Codru area. We then talked about the preparation of ceremonial rolls, cooking of the meal etc. The investigation part consists in the analysis of the unique folklore genres of the cycle’s repertoire, and the analysis of the rites and of the particularizing ceremonial acts of the widely circulated folklore categories. In this section, we focused on the caroling custom in Codru area, with a rich content of rites and unique ceremonial acts, especially in the custom of carol singing performed by groups of young men. We then treated the original plays of the religious folk theater repertoire, but also of theater with historical subjects with original plays, which are individualized through particularizing elements. A section of our study was dedicated to the original masked folk dances, but also to events with particularizing elements of widely circulated masked dances: the Goat Dance and the Bear Dance.