44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Stories of life in Bukovina – Kóka Rozália’s column. Excerpts from – Lőrincz Gergely: Székely édesanyám sok szép szava [My Sweet Székely Mother’s Many Beautiful Words]. Bukovina Kiadó, Budapest, 2014. Two stories: one of courtship at Easter time when a boy trying to win a girl’s favour over another boy, takes her swinging. The second story is about a young man who arranges to kidnap the girl he wants for his wife (with the girl’s consent). Both sets of parents had planned more economically advantageous matches for their children and forbidden the marriage. Kidnapping or ’stealing the girl’ was the method of the time for avoiding an arranged marriage. These stories are related in the local dialect.