Kecskés Péter (szerk.): Upper Tisza region (Regional Units of Open Air Museum. Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 1980)

3. THE MUSEUM VILLAGE

59. The „dry mill" from Vámosoroszi being reconstructed ses going round and round; through a system of cogwheels and axles, the mill-stones were made to grind. A large round roof is called „the tent of the round-about" („kerengő sátor") and protected both horse and wheel from rain. Actually, the roof was supported by twelve posts. It was covered with wooden shingles. The large vertical beam is called the „idol", („bálvány") fitted into a yoke („járom"), and below there is a „bear-log" („medve-gerenda"). (111. 58.) The wheel has no fewer than 370 teeth made of acacia-wood which help to turn the mechanism, the mill-stones called „mealstone" („kásakő") and „maize-stone" („málékő"). (111. 59.) From autumn to spring the mill ground, according to a definite daily routine, millet, wheat an

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aize. The farmers who had a cart and horses would lend their horse — or perhaps an ox or a cow — and were paid for it in kind. Those who brought their corn to be ground also paid in kind. Among those members of the church who were Presbyters, there were appointed those who kept guard as a „dayly keeper". Wheat was ground in large quantities at a time, together with bran. At home, women would use a sieve — „as fine as a veil" — to 75