Articles by Initial Letters
Téli áldás Széken
- Issue: 2002/4
- Starting page: 47
- Author: Soós János
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Soós János – Winter Blessing in Szék. Soós regularly writes these short memoirs for FolkMAGazin about his home village in Transylvania, off ering to those of us not from such a village, little tastes of that life. Here, we hear about spinning parties on winter evenings – great gatherings for discussion of local issues, etc over needle work, spinning or other handwork. In such villages, books were rare and treasured items: as a rule only three people in a village owned books at all; the priest, the schoolmaster and the town clerk. Books were brought to spinning parties and stories read aloud. Th is is the story of the first time Soós was asked to read aloud at such a gathering and how he got his first book.