: Just as they pull a heavy plow in life, in death they pull the weight of a lived existence into the unknown. The Historical: "Trăgători și Mistificatori"
: Here, trăgători represents a betrayal of the people by the state, a "counter-revolution" meant to sow chaos during the birth of a new democracy. The Archetype: Ambition and Discipline trДѓgДѓtori
In traditional Romanian folklore and funeral rites, specifically the Songs to the Dead ( cântece ale mortului ), the term appears in a deeply symbolic sense. It refers to the "giant pullers"—often envisioned as —that pull the carriage of the soul from the "world of longing" to the "world without longing". : Just as they pull a heavy plow