Dressed as a bride in the coffin: Patrizia and Bianca followed the Transylvanian tradition, that’s it

The tradition of dressing young girls who died as brides comes from Transylvania: here is the meaning and hope behind this custom also followed for Patrizia Cormos and Bianca Doros who died in the flood of the Natisone

BOLOGNA – Patrizia Cormos and Bianca Doros, the two girls who died in the flood of the Natisone river on Friday 31 May would have been dressed in a wedding dress in the coffin, on the occasion of the Funeral Chamber taking place in Udine today and tomorrow. It is a tradition, now obsolete and followed only rarely, which however is still alivein some villages of Transylvania, the area from which both girls were originally from. Both, in fact, will be buried in Tarna Mare , in Transylvania.

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The Transylvanian custom is to dress unmarried women who died at a young age in a beautiful wedding dress. Why? Because the belief is that wearing a wedding dress allows the girl who was unable to marry during her earthly life to get married in the afterlife, perhaps with the man they have always loved. Or with a man they never met but who was ‘destined’ for them.

In Transylvania this belief would have a name: the girls who are dressed as brides for the last farewell are in fact called “brides in death“. Custom also dictates that girls who die young are not only dressed as brides, but also combed and made up with great care, just as if it were their wedding day. Transylvania is a region where tradition, faith and even superstition are still very much alive, more than elsewhere in Romania.

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