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Title: Hungary and its people: Magyarorzág és népei
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Felbermann, Louis
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Publisher: London, Griffith Farran
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ildren actually frightened atthe sight of you, and running away, crying withfear! Everything seems to be different here !The very cows, calves, pigs, and poultry appearto be poverty-stricken, and the howling of thedogs is more feeble than those of their fellowsin the plains. Though the country is pic-turesque enough, the soil produces hardlyanything, and you might wonder how thepeople live, for one sees nothing growingexcepting now and then Indian corn, and smallquantities of barley and other grain with inferiorwild fruit. But if the soil has not been kind tothem, the air is exhilarating, and the water ofrivulets coming from the mountains is morepalatable than all the wines in the world. Thecustoms of the people are somewhat similar tothose of their Ruthenian brethren in other partsof the country, and I will only briefly describethe following. Weddings. It is the Custom here for the young man whoproposes for a girl to start to her house withfour men, the eldest putting the proposal to
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Peculiar Cítstoms of the Verchovinians. 265 her on behalf of the suitor. After the girl, towhom free choice is left, gives her consent, theparents give their blessing. Soon after thisthe official betrothal takes place, on whichoccasion wedding presents are exchangedbetween the parties, the man giving to hisfiancee an entire outfit, including a pair of redcordovan boots, whilst he receives in return anartificial flower which is pinned to his Sundayhat. These presents are preserved throughoutthe whole of their lives, in fact, they are onlyworn on Sundays and fete days,- and in ordernot to spoil their boots by any mud they walkbarefooted to the church, and put them onoutside. It is also their desire to be buried inthe garments which have formed a portion ofthe gifts. The day before the marriage isfixed the friends are invited by envoy és ^ whocollect eggs and other presents offered towardsthe wedding, which is solemnized with greatpomp and lasts from two to three days. Spinning Nights.

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