Lapot

This article is about a Serbian tradition. For other uses of "lapot", see Lapot (disambiguation).

Lapot (Serbian: лапот, pronounced [lâpot][1]) is the legendary practice of senicide among the Timok Romanians of present-day Eastern Serbia:[2][3][4] killing one's parents, or other elderly family members, once they become a financial burden on the family. According to T. R. Georgevitch (Đorđević), writing in 1918 about the eastern highlands of Serbia, in the region of Zaječar, the killing was carried out with an axe or stick, and the entire village was invited to attend. In some places corn mush was put on the head of the victim to make it seem as if the corn, not the family, was the killer.[5]

Georgevitch suggests that this legend may have originated in tales surrounding the Roman occupation of local forts.

The Romans ... were very bellicose people. Their leader ordered all the holders of the fort up to forty years of age to be active fighters, from forty to fifty to be guards of the fort, and after fifty to be killed, because they have no military value. Since that period the old men were killed.[5]

Anthropologist Senka Kovač, in a study on aging, mentions that the name "lapot" is given to this custom of killing the elderly in eastern Serbia.[4]

In a study published in 1999, Bojan Jovanović argues that earlier anthropologists such as Trojanović, Georgevitch, and Čajkanović had confused myth with reality and that the well-known story of a grandson who had hidden his grandfather to protect him from lapot after a bad harvest, bringing him back to the village when the old man's wisdom had shown a way to survive, was the basis for establishing that the old should be respected for their knowledge and wise counsel.[6][unreliable source?]

The tradition was the topic of the 1972 TV docudrama Legenda o Lapotu (The Legend of Lapot) by Goran Paskaljević, in which after a bad harvest, an elderly man who could no longer work was ritually slain.[2][7][8][9] The 1992 novel Lapot by Živojin Pavlović received the NIN Prize.[10][11] In 2004, Italian news agency ANSA reported from Belgrade that an attempt by the Serbian government to introduce a law restricting free dispensing of lifesaving medicines to the over 60s, had been described by the Serb media as a case of "lapot".[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ Пешикан, Митар; Грицкат-Радуловић, Ирена; Гордан-Премк, Даринка; Матијашић, Фахра; Фекете, Егон, eds. (1981). Речник српскохрватског књижевног и народног језика. Књига XI: кукутка — маква. Београд: Институт за српскохрватски језик. p. 229.
  2. ^ a b Anderson, John (9 January 2008). "Goran Paskaljevic - Movies". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  3. ^ Pavićević, Aleksandra. "Time With or Without Death" (PDF). Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography. Ethnographic Institute of the SASA, Belgrade: 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
  4. ^ a b Kovač, Senka (2006). "Les signes du vieillissement" (PDF). Antropologija (in French and Serbo-Croatian). 1. Belgrade: Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  5. ^ a b Georgevitch, T. R. (3 September 1918). "The Killing of the Khazar Kings". Folk-Lore. 29 (3). London: Folk-Lore Society: 238–247. doi:10.1080/0015587X.1918.9719061. JSTOR 1255454.
  6. ^ Trebješanin, Zarko (18 May 2000). "Lapot: naučni mit ili stvarnost" (in Serbo-Croatian). NIN. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  7. ^ "Legenda o Lapotu (1972) (TV) - Full cast and crew". IMdB. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  8. ^ "l'europe autour de festival de films l'europe / Paris - Normandie 2008". evropafilmakt.com. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  9. ^ Gallagher, Cullen (17 January 2008). "Midwinter Night's Dream". Not Coming to a Theater Near You. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
  10. ^ Živojin Pavlović (1992). Lapot (in Serbo-Croatian). ISBN 978-86-379-0352-9.
  11. ^ "Dobitnici" (in Serbian). NIN. Retrieved 2010-10-19. 1992. dobitnik Živojin Pavlović (drugi put), za roman Lapot. Žiri: Slavko Leovac, predsednik, Miroslav Egerić, Pavle Zorić, Čedomir Mirković i Marko Nedić. Nagrada dodeljena većinom glasova.
  12. ^ Ottaviano, Beatrice; Petrovic, Dragan (10 August 2004). "Serbia: Sanita' allo Sfacio, Spazio agli Stregoni /ANSA; Tempi Biblici per Cure Ospedaliere, Proliferano Guaritori" (in Italian). Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata. Retrieved 2009-08-04.

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