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94 Izabella Danter lar life in the village (collected and edited by József Bakos) we can also read this: “Even children say in Farkasd10: Buy carrots, parsley, onions!" (Bakos 1942: 32-33). Another poem mocks the Vlčany people: In the church in Farkasd, Even the priest says: Buy carrots, parsley, onions! (Gágyor 1986: 73) In Neded the carrot used to have a role in wedding customs: a stamp was carved from a carrot, then used to close the letter that was handed over to the groom by young males disguised as women, in order to buy out, symbolically, the wedding-guests. The groom “paid", for opening the blocked road, wine and money (Bakos 1942: 42). József Gágyor, in his village-mocking poems collected in the region of Mátyusföld11, mentions that inhabitants of neighbouring villages used to call people from Vlčany “onion people”, while people from Neded were called "cabbage people”. A cabbage flower can also be found in the village crest of Neded. Vlčany figures as a research field site in both the Flungarian and Slovakian ethnographic atlases and therefore, the characteristics of its traditional economic life have been mapped, too. In 1956, Tamás Flofer carried out ethnographic research in Neded during his survey of the types and spreading of Flungarian garden settlements (Flofer 1960: 331-349). According to military maps from the 19,h century, the village lay on the western bank of the Váh, while its gardens were situated on the eastern bank. On the village side, there were vast community pastures, big cabbage fields and hayfields; on the eastern side, where the gardens lay, large cabbage fields and hayfields could be found. The overwhelming part of the arable land was also situated here, on the eastern side. Sheep-folds served for housing animals (mainly cows and horses) through the cold winter period. In the first half of the 20th century, intensive husbandry characterised both Neded and Vlčany. Pasturing husbandry was gradually pushed into
