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Reducing
the forest to ashes in order to obtain mountain pasture.
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The theme of
capture, of chaining up the forces of nature to the extreme could not be
better developped. It is the man, indeed, who breaks the initial cosmic
harmonies expressed by the natural equilibrium between woods and high-mountain
grassy meadows : he reeps meadows in mountain pastures. As the guardian
of the forest and its approaches, as the master of her garden, the Girl
of the Forest opposes to him. To this end, she gives signs through the voices
of nature, the "rustling of grass, the roaring of sources". Then,
she reacts in her usual way : by getting his aggressor to vomit. But
the man "is not afraid". He goes on and tries to identify the
author of this warning until he finally discovers it in its human form :
the Girl of the Forest. He captures her and ties her. So tied, Fata Paduri
is tortured and forced to betray the mysteries of science. A step further,
and the old man's artifice metamorphoses her into a domesticated and attached
dog. But this is too much, and it is a woman, the old woman, who causes
a series of events in reverse order and controls a final situation analogous
to the initial one. She insists that his man unties the ties he has tied
and suppresses any form of binding. The metamorphoses occur then in reverse
order : the dog is changed into a woman again and the woman, the Girl
of the Forest, is free. 
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J.C.:
Mémoire des Carpathes, La Roumanie millénaire, un regard intérieur,
Paris, Plon, Terre Humaine, 2000, pp.194-195 |
