| By writing the thesis, I want to make the subject available to the professional and lay public in a complete way, which has not yet been sufficiently critically and monographically processed. First of all, I want to evaluate as much as possible on this topic of published works. These are dozens of song collections, contributions in proceedings, studies, by ethnologists of previously unused articles in periodical printing, final university works, program brochures of folklore festivals, shows, etc. My next task is to rewrite as many manuscript sources as possible, which have not yet been published, thus making documents about the processions on “Death Sunday” published from a number of locations for the first time. The findings gained from the comparison or critical evaluation of the written documents should be supplemented by the study of collection items, photographs, videos and films stored by memory institutions in the Czech Republic (Praha, Brno, Strážnice). The study of museum exhibits is only in the preparatory phase, I collect as much material as possible from their documentation carried out by previous researchers, until the museums are made available to new interested parties. The latest information is intended to provide field research consisting of direct observation, unstructured interviews, documentation through photographs, possibly videos and correspondence with informants. The existence of the custom in the 19th and 20th centuries was discovered in about fifty locations in the Brno region. Several dozen locations document the revitalization of parades in the 20th and 21st centuries. Until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was maintained in Brno-Černovice, Brno-Komín, Brno-Tuřany, Brno-Zábrdovice, Křižanovice, Milešovice, Modřice, Omice, Ořechov, Šlapanice, Telnice, Vážany nad Litavou, Velatice and Židlochovice. Preparations for the restoration of the custom in the village of Střelice were made impossible by the aforementioned pandemic. At the time of the lockdown, symbolic reminders of the custom took place on “Death Sunday” (March 29, 2020): part of one family burned a figure and decorated the May branch in Střelice; the family carried and threw the figure into a stream in Křižanovice (the head of children's folklore posted a montage of videos with singing and recitations of children), similarly two leaders in Šlapanice, leader in Ostopovice carried it to the garden, one woman made a figure in Brno-Komín. So I would direct a paper at a doctoral colloquium to Death Sundays in the coronavirus era, and if I find such, I would mention the changes in this year's parades compared to the previous decade. |
