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Historical senicide practice

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::summary Historical senicide practice ::

::callout[type=note] a Serbian tradition ::

Lapot (, ) is the legendary practice of senicide among the Timok Romanians of present-day Eastern Serbia: |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/movies/09film.html |title=Goran Paskaljevic - Movies|work=New York Times |access-date=2009-07-31 |date=9 January 2008 |last=Anderson |first=John | url = http://www.etno-institut.co.rs/GEI/GEI_LVI_2/pavicevic_gei56_2.pdf | title = Time With or Without Death | journal = Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography | publisher = Ethnographic Institute of the SASA, Belgrade | access-date = 2010-10-19 | page = 10 | last = Pavićević | first = Aleksandra | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111007012510/http://www.etno-institut.co.rs/GEI/GEI_LVI_2/pavicevic_gei56_2.pdf | archive-date = 2011-10-07 | url-status = dead

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.

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.

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. |url=http://www.nin.co.rs/2000-05/18/12726.html |title=Lapot: naučni mit ili stvarnost |publisher=NIN |date=18 May 2000 |language=Serbo-Croatian|access-date=2009-07-31 |last=Trebješanin |first=Zarko

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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. |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173980/fullcredits |title=Legenda o Lapotu (1972) (TV) - Full cast and crew |publisher=IMdB |access-date=2009-07-31 |url=http://evropafilmakt.com/site/2007edition/2008edition/legend.html |title=l'europe autour de festival de films l'europe / Paris - Normandie 2008 |publisher=evropafilmakt.com |access-date=2009-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008074651/http://evropafilmakt.com/site/2007edition/2008edition/legend.html |archive-date=2017-10-08 |url-status=dead |url=http://www.notcoming.com/reviews/midwinternightsdream/ |title=Midwinter Night's Dream |publisher=Not Coming to a Theater Near You |date=17 January 2008 |access-date=2009-07-31 |last=Gallagher |first=Cullen The 1992 novel Lapot by Živojin Pavlović received the NIN Prize. | year = 1992 | author = Živojin Pavlović | title = Lapot | isbn = 978-86-379-0352-9 | language = Serbo-Croatian}} | url = http://www.nin.co.rs/2001-01/04/15964.html | title = Dobitnici | publisher = NIN | language = Serbian | quote = 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. | access-date = 2010-10-19 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".

References

References

  1. (1981). "Речник српскохрватског књижевног и народног језика. Књига XI: кукутка — маква". Институт за српскохрватски језик.
  2. Kovač, Senka. (2006). "Les signes du vieillissement". Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade.
  3. Georgevitch, T. R.. (3 September 1918). "The Killing of the Khazar Kings". Folk-Lore Society.
  4. Ottaviano, Beatrice. (10 August 2004). "Serbia: Sanita' allo Sfacio, Spazio agli Stregoni /ANSA; Tempi Biblici per Cure Ospedaliere, Proliferano Guaritori". Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata.

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