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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2014  
         
  Article:   THE FOREBODING DREAM IN ROMANIAN FOLKLORE.

Authors:  SORIN MITU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   The foreboding dream in Romanian folklore. This study analyses the premonitory dreams present in the Romanian folk creations, especially in the heroic epopees. The significations of these dreams are discussed within the wider context of the medieval and pre-modern Romanian popular culture, by comparison with a series of texts belonging to cultured literature. The analysis reveals the specific manner in which the popular mentality valorises dreams. On the one hand, dreams are invested with premonitory virtues and profound meanings, as in any traditional culture. On the other hand, in the analysed texts, one can notice a process of “taming”, of rationalising dreams, apparent from the appreciable dose of scepticism and mistrust concerning dreams’ premonitory value.

Keywords: dreams in folklore, premonitory dreams, Romanian folklore, dream interpretation, historical oneirology
 
         
     
         
         
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