The rituality of post-wedding stage on the territory of Hoshcha district,Rivne region

Анотація

Wedding rituality is one of the main areas of family rituality. It’s impossible to imagine the existence of traditional societes without it, as well as the modern socium. Ethnologists usually devide wedding rituality into pre-wedding, wedding-itself, and post-wedding stages; each of them is constructed of some ritual elements. They have their own peculiarities among the different peoples and ethnographic groups. In the article, based on the field ethnography data’s gathered by the author on the territory of Hoshcha district of Rivne region (Bashyne, Dorohbuzh, Kolesnyky, Vilhir, Uhiltsi, Zarichne, Illin, Kurozvany), is described all-Ukrainian, all-Volhynian features and local peculiarities of post-wedding stage of population of mentioned areas of hisroric-ethnographic Volyn. The main elements of these customs an rites are described, and made a try of revelation of its semantic.