Consideration regarding the celebration of Dragobete and Saint Valentine in the Oltenia region

Abstract

This article is a comparative and holistic analysis of two celebrations, Saint Valentine and

Valentine’s Day and the Eventisation of Slovakia’s Festive Culture

“…In addition to monitoring Valentine's Day becoming one of the country's holidays (Kovzele, 2021), the attention of ethnologists has focused on its confrontation with holidays with identical content. e confrontation either strengthens the rejection of the "Western" or "American" Valentine's Day and the protection of domestic, often by the Communist regime, banned holidays (Teodorescu et al, 2017;Purcaru, 2019); or, as research in Estonia and Serbia has shown, the presence of Valentine's Day leads to the elimination of International 3) they combine different cultural and aesthetic expressions, mixing elements of different cultural traditions; the result is to be a "total experience" corresponding to all human senses; 4) they offer the experience of the "wholeness of being" as opposed to the particularised reality of daily life; they are to be a "source of strength", providing vitality and creative impulses to the alienated daily life; 5) they are social places and time segments mediating a sense of exclusive community and belonging; 6) they are usually monothematically focused and interactive; in order to promote identity and create a community of exclusive nature, they need content (forms of action, ideas, and products) that can be communicated or about which it is possible to communicate, which is worth being dealt with and which have the ability to differentiate (Gebhardt, 2000: 19-22).…”