Fejős Zoltán: Néprajzi Közlemények 27. évfolyam - Hiedelemrendszer, szöveg, közösség 1. rész (Budapest, 1985)

EDITOR'S NOTE The last two-three decades have brought important results in the study of Hungarian folk beliefs: beside works whose main aim was the presentation of the collected material the number of analytic and intensive studies has grown up to a considerable number. This process has begun with the exemplary work of Éva Cs. Pócs - a monography of the folk-belief system of a Hungarian village, Zagy varékas — that created a whole school. This work contains the folk-belief material of one village, Karancskeszi (Nógrád county, northern Hungary) presented in a systematic way from materials characteristic of the 1970s. The book is devided into two parts: one that presents the material and another in which the author analyses it. In the first, analyzing part he enumerates all the factors that could determine in Karancskeszi the formation and conservation of folk-beliefs. Then he goes on to examine the connection of the folk-belief system and the texts, and their bearings on society. He then clears up questions relating to the connection of folk-beliefs and their linguistic shaping and points out the communal and social features of folkbeliefs that can be seized even on the level of texts. Due technical problems the monography is published in two separate volumes. Begimng with the text N° 687 - the folk belief texts of the omens and the mythical beings - will be published in the 1984 issue of the Néprajzi Közlemények. The second part of this work contains nearly 1100 texts from Karancskeszi. This material was mainly collected during the 70s by the author himself, while a smaller part of it contains texts from earlier sources. This book therefore documentâtes the knowledge, and partly the active practice of the - mainly older - inhabitants of Karancskeszi, in the 1970s.