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Lőrincz Gergely írásai és rajzai 3.
Guzsalyasban
- Issue: 2020/4
- Starting page: 30
- Serie: Bukovinai életképek
- Author: Lőrincz Gergely
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Kóka Rózália’s column: Stories from life in old Bukovina. A story about a winter spinning party. Girls of marriagable age in the village met in a villager’s house on winter evenings to spin together. At some point the boys arrived with some alcohol and a musician. They told jokes and tales, sang and danced, and this was where certain courtship rituals were carried out. In this story, a boy has decided he likes a particular girl, so he tells his father he wants to carve a spindle for her as a present. By this, his father knows his son is serious about the girl. The boy takes the spindle to the spinning party to present it to the girl. She accepts the gift and everyone knows that the two like one another, now no other boys will approach her, and it may even end in marriage. At a spinning party when a girl dropped her spindle, a boy would rush to pick it up for her because he may get a kiss in return. When the party ended, the boys gave money for the musician. By Lőrincz Gergely – related in heavy dialect.