Nagy Gyula: Parasztélet a vásárhelyi pusztán (A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 4. Békéscsaba, 1975)

Idegennyelvű kivonatok, képaláírások, képek

49. The "kerekól" (round-pen) brings to mind quite a distant past; it was burnt and white-washed yearly, thus the poultry didn't become infected with lice in it 50—51. Here, the round-pen is also used as smoke-house. To the more central pen, a leanto pen, and to this a doghouse was attached 52—53. Many types of the round-pen may be found 54—55. ... although these are already very rare, nowadays 56—57. In the round-pen, pigs or geese were kept 58—59. Women put together the smaller round-pens out of mud, large enough for as many as fit under a hen 60—61. At Cinkus, we still find pens, with frame-workless roofs made out of weeds 62—63. Pens are often very primitive constructions; sometimes they were dug out of stacks of straw 64—65. In back of the tanya, hidden, stands the neglected "pityöre", outhouse 66—67. The kennel is also of varied types, and may be round, too 68—70. The room serves many purposes. The mistress prepares clean underware for her husband 71—74. The pipe-smoker 75—76. Besides bread, fat and bacon are the most nutrients of the tanya inhabitants, for this purpose they used to hold pig-killings at Christmas-time 77—78. Pig-killings were considered as events in the family, and at the end of they held feasts 79—82. Sheep-cheese in preparation

... 83—86. ... now it is already being shaped 87—90. Soup-noodles in preparation 91—92. The round "levél" (paste-leaf) is rolled out until it is thin, then it is cut 93—96. Out of the dove will be dinner.

.. 97—100. Its light and nutritious soup, food of the sickly 101—104. There is a special method to eating bacon, also 105—107. Rest 108—110. Much learning is needed for the preparation of "kúcsoskalács" (special cake) 111—113. ... especially its weaving is complicated 114—117. The bullwhip is in preparation... 118—121. ... it will be finished soon, already 122. On Sándor Fekete's tanya of Kardoskut, the horseshoe is repaired brought into order before the horseshoeing 123—127. The sheep's wool is sheared in one 128—129. The dung is well-stamped into shape, and it is stretched outside to dry up, like clay, unfired bricks. It holds the embers well 130—131. In the past, on many tanya-s they tinkered with bees. Today, beekeeping in hives is already on the decline 132—133. On the banks of the Szárazér, the Samson's cast many good-quality clay bricks ("vájug")... 134—135. ... out of which a portion is taken to the Puszta 136—140. Several types of straw ropes were made for the binding of sheaves 141—143. One can harvest well only with the well-flattened and well-sharpened scythe 144—145. While the mother binds the sheaves, she keeps her small child in the shade nearby 146—147. In the stubble-field during pasturage, the children imitate their parents' work: they pull the threshing-machine and thresh 647