Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Căpleni. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)
Ethnographic values
them came out unharmed. We got used to them during time, especially when it turned cold and we slept in the straw. At night, we used to sleep together 4 or 5 children in the straw, and we stayed so tight because of the fear that in the morning we could hardly get untied. We feared because, at night, whistling snakes were everywhere.^ Szarka Gyula quoted by Farkas József). Ethnographic values The village doesn’t have a unitary appearance. Among the rows of houses built perpendicularly on the street, there are areas where front walls of the houses are not parallel with the road, but they have a 10-20 degrees inclination. This is observable especially at Magyar Street (the Hungarian Street). This is typical in the situations where the plot is not perpendicular to the line of the street. The front line of the houses is even more varied, due to the presence or absence of the front gardens. Long houses, specific to the wealthy Schwab families are to be found at the center of the settlement. Few of them preserve their original shape. Houses get smaller toward the periphery of the village, unlike the daub or brick houses from the center. They were made of wattle and clay. Even though, they were smaller, they still had four or five rooms. The wattle walls were thinner than Cruce Kereszt Cross 37
