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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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fogó (hand-taking). After this the young man gives engagementpresents in the shape of money, which is con-sidered the purchase price of the bride andvaries from one florin to two hundred florins,in accordance with the means of the suitor andthe good looks of the girl—and a betrothal ring,and receives in return another ring and a silkhandkerchief, ^yhich the girl has herself em-broidered. Marrying a woman with the Hun-garian peasant means to buy her just likeordinary articles, and for that reason the fathertalks of his unmarried daughter as eladó led^tyom(saleable daughter), whilst a bridegroom iscalled vőlegény (the young purchaser). Afterthe asking of banns in church for two successiveSundays, another feast takes place, which iscalled the kissing feast. The Kissing Feast and WeddingPreparations. On this occasion, as may naturally be ex-pected, the bridegroom elect is not accompaniedby a great retinue of friends, but by the inevit-able leány kérő. He carries in his silk hand-
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bflti Invitations to a Weddiufr. 193 kerchief apples and nuts as presents to hisfiancee. After supper they retire into aseparate room, when for the first time sincetheir engagement they converse without beingdisturbed, and when the happy mortal for thefirst time (?) touches the lips of the womanwhom he is shortly going to call his own.M. Résü Ensel Sándor, in describing this, putsa note of interrogation to it, and so do I ! After the banns are put up for the third time,and before the wedding takes place, the gloryof the léany kérő ends, and the vófény (bestman) steps in, for it is he who goes to thehouse of the future wife, who decorates himwith flowers and places ribbon rosettes in thenational colours and a silken handkerchief onhis coat, and offers him some pálinka to drink,after which he starts on the invitation tour. The peasants on such occasions invite almostthe entire village, and each person contributessome presents towards the wedding, in theshape of flour, eggs, win

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