Viga Gyula: Tevékenységi formák és javak cseréje a Bükk-vidék népi kultúrájában (Borsodi Kismonográfiák 23. Miskolc, 1986)

Baroque construction under progress in the North Hungarian towns — mainly in Eger. 5. Due first of all to the women's activity, there was a large trade with plants gathered in the forests (mostly mushrooms and forest fruits). These goods, however, spread within the region, they would not reach farther places. In recent times, the women from Bükkalja go farther than the region to pick snowflower what they then, specially near Women's Day and Mothers' Day, will take to the markets in the capital to sell. 6. The burnt lime is one of the most specific product of Bükk mountain the trade of which was most common, and which was taken by the specialized carmen even to a distance of 150 to 200 km-s. The lime was taken first of all to the Slovaks living in the inner pait of the mountain; but the lime burning and trade with it was the essential occupation of many of the inhabitants of the settlements in this region. From spring till autumn a great number of carts transported the lime to the Plain distributing the markets among the individual villages. In return for their goods, the carmen got first of all corn and food, but soon they turned to money economy. 7. There was a smaller trade with charcoal. In the Treasury's forests, coal burning was done mostly for the iron works in the past, and the forgeshops' capacity had a slighter importance. Nowadays, coal burning is again a significant form of occupation: charcoal is exported mainly to West European markets. 8. The wood cut in the forests of Bükk mountain made the object of a considerable exhange of goods. The carmen of the villages of Bükk mountain bought the cheap wood and transported it to the villages of the Plain and sold it with a considerable profit or changed it for corn with the populations of regions poor in wood. The inhabitants of some settlements (mainly village Cserépfalu) specialized in wood carving and their goods (wooden forks, distaffs, oxbows, wooden spoons and smaller kitchen utensils, tool stems and rakes) were changed on far regions. 9. The various semi-finished and finished products of hemp processing also gave objects of a significant exchange of goods. A specific balancing process can be observed in the raw material supply and there was an important exchange of goods with the finished canvas, too. A special division of labour developed between the settlements around the glass works and the villages of Bükkalja; the women of the former settlements made canvas for the Slovaks. All these had an important effect on taste formation and the interaction of folk art elements. 12* 179