The Volhynian traditions of the daily bread baking process (on the materialsfrom Hoshcha and Ostroh districts of Rivne region)

Анотація

In the article, based on the field ethnography data’s gathered by the author on the territory of Hoshcha (Bashyne, Kolesnyky, Vilhir, Uhiltsi) and Ostroh (Bukhariv, Zavoziv) districts of Rivne region, folk traditions of daily bread baking at the territory of northern part of the hisroric-ethnographic Volhynia are under examination. The author concentrates on the preparing stage of the bread baking process, exactly on the methods and ways of the flour grinding and storing, dough leavening, choosing of firewood etc. Traditional bread backing is in the indissoluble connection with memorial rituality of Ukrainians and basis on the folk conceptions about the other world. First of all it was connected with folk conceptions about baking stove as an entrance to the other world and a place of habitation for the souls of dead ancestors. In the other hand, bread baking was treated as an action of a very high semantic degree. So, for its positive conclusion, it was acceptable to win the souls of ancestors round.