Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Patrimoniu multietnic (Satu Mare, 2009)
“Lord, I’m fine when I’m not bad/ Like the fish in the brook/ But, Lord, it’s bad when I’m not fine/ And I’ve got no help!” “I’m from Oaş, with mottled coat/1 would wear my knife in my large bag/ And a decorated feather with my hat!/ When lords ordered/ Three times to tie me up/1 didn’t give up/ Because since this world exists/1 feared no one!” “Green leaf, apple on a branch/ I was born in Oas/ With my mouth to sing/ With my eyes to charm!” Palinca, the famous drink with several “fires” that burn tempting and in dangerous way is invoked as follows: “Drink plum palinca/ If you drink it, you will get drunk/ And you’ll make fulls of yourselves!” “In palinca there’s a devil/ And he helps me doing bad things!” “Sâmbra oilor” is one of the many traditions in the area, it is an old pastoral custom that celebrates the rebirth of nature, when sheep come out for grazing and for being milked for the first time, getting separated from the ones without milk, followed by gauging the milk and tallying it on a stick, which might be a strange appearance for someone who doesn’t know how it is done. Each Farfurie de Vama, Colecţia Muzeului Judeţean Satu Mare Тарілка -Вама. Колекція Повітового музею Сату Mape Vámfalusi tányér. Szatmár Megyei Múzeum gyűjteménye Plate from Vama. Collection of Satu Mare County Museum tallied stick illustrates a certain quantity of milk, ewe cheese, cheese that the owner will receive along the year. Once men activities like sheepfold establishing, shepherds election, gauging the milk were completed, women embrace their roles, bringing in their bags the goods to be laid on the traditional towels, down on the grass. Dancing 121
