Ikvai Nándor szerk.: Börzsöny néprajza (Studia Comitatensia 5. Szentendre, 1977)

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Ildikó I. Sándor: Changes in the heating installations in the region of the Börzsöny mountains According to recollections the earliest forms of peasant heating installations were the ovens to be heated from the kitchen, respectively the tiled ovens and the houses provided with chimneys. At the end of the past century the ovens were removed from the room into the kitchen. The ovens with built-in flues (vindófni) signified the next grade of development (until 1930). They cooked upon the earthen benches before the ovens. In the last decades of the past century the cooking-stoves made of clay (falispór) appeared, followed later on by the iron cookers, the enamelled cookers and in the present time the gasranges. Adrien U. Kerékgyártó: Relics of wear in the Hungarian villages situated along the river Ipoly The article presents the relics of wear of the Hungarian villages lying on both banks of the river Ipoly, dating back as long as 150—200 years ago. It follows the progression of dresses becoming old-fashioned and observes the influence exercised by bourgeois-urban wear. According to the author the costumes worn in the Hungarian Nort-western Plan had the greatest influence. István Szabó—László Szabó : People's society of the Ipoly valley The authors examined the changes in the structure of society during the transition from feudalism to capitalism, with regard to the families of both poor and well-to-do peasants. The consciousness of coming from the serfs, the remembrances of serfhood are within living memory, the mentality is characteristic of the serfdom. The inhabitants live in a single unit, there are no separations. Leading a hand-to-mouth existence was typical of the peasantry. The large estates hindered the possibility for the peasantry's evolution. Eva Gulyás: Data of popular beliefs from the country along the river Ipoly The relations between man and the beliefs in supernatural fancies are reported by the author. She tells about the superstitions connected with witches, shamans, storm-raisers, children born with teeth, seventh-born children, wise-shepherds, goblins, house-snakes, water-nymphs and sprites. Some superstitions related to farming life are presented, too. László Bády: Relics of popular therapy at Ipolytölgyes The study presents the relics of popular therapy of a single village, on the basis of a medical practitioner's observations. The superstitions are separated from the use of medicinal plante and natural agencies and there is a parallel drawn between them. 679