Agria 42. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2006)

Bereznai Zsuzsanna: A népi táplálkozás hiedelmei a hajósi sváboknál

Zsuzsanna Bereznai Folk Eating Superstitions among the Swabians of Hajós The village of Hajós is situated on the Kalocsa-Sárköz between the Danube and the Tisza on the Great Plain. Hajós, in the true meaning of the word, is a Swabian settlement, the population having been settled there by the Archbishop of Kalocsa from Swabia during the 1720s. The majority of the population came from about eighty villages situated on Bussen Hill near Ulm. This south German region situated north of Lake Constance was depopulated during the Thirty Years War. The repopulation of the area was helped in no small part by the arrival of settlers from Switzerland, Vorarlberg and Tyrol, who were to continue on their travels at the beginning of the 18th century. Some of those boarding the rafts in Ulm were to make their way to Hajós, and today they continue to speak the Swabian-Alemann dialect. The language of the village and its folk culture differs significantly from that of the Kalocsa Sárköz

's other two German settlements (Császártöltés, Nemesnádudvar). Although the 20th century eating habits of the Hajós Swabians are rich and various, the older women still cook and bake in the same way as their parents and grandparents. The superstitions relating to them are, however, rather the stuff of memories. This paper focuses on the folk eating superstitions relating to the Hajós Swabians: in connection with baking bread, the making sour cream and killing pigs, with water, with wine, as well as everyday events, red-letter days and celebrations. 57