43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Vót, hol nem vót [Once upon a time] – Moldavian Csángó folk tales. Compiled by Zakariás Erzsébet. Koinónia. Kolozsvár, Romania 2009. A collection of 111 folk tales from 12 Moldavian villages and 42 different story tellers; selected from the archive of the Romanian Folklore Institute in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca. The tales were collected between 1951 and 1958 and „bring us a vanished, unique world”. Includes interesting description of some of the differences between today’s Hungarian language and the archaic Hungarian in the tales. Review by Dala Sára.