A nice description of the Tanec Sokyra

On the High Uplands
Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians
by Stanislaw Vincenz

Dance description
pg 43
What did they dance? The depicted their ancestors history and past adventures. They swung their axes at one another, erect and squatting, as though repulsing an enemy; they threw their axes from one to another, as though challenging to a fight. [...]

Universal Geography 1829

The peasantry form the great mass of the people, their costume is well fitted for a cold climate and a pastoral life. The  guba, a large woollen cloak, defends them against the inclemencies of the
season ; and the kalpak or felt cap, which is now worn by horsemen, and even by kings, still retains among [...]

TAIT’S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER, VOL. XXII. 1855

The inhabitants of the Puszta are herdsmen, following great droves of horses, buffaloes, snow-white bullocks, sheepand swine from pasture to pasture, and remaining the whole year round beneath the canopy
of Heaven. The wildest amongst them are the swineherds, and their greatest distinction is to be a redoubtable fighter. They are pre-eminently the heroes of the [...]

The Village Notary: A Romance of Hungarian Life By József Eötvös 1850

AMONG the characteristic weapons of the ancient Hungarians
was the buzogany, a short staff, with a heavy knob
of precious metal at the end. The buzogany is a symbol
of command, and as such it is still found in the hands of
the Indian Eajahs. In Hungary, it was usually hung by
the side of the sabre. It still denotes [...]

Museum of Histoical Arms catalog

the catalog reads: No.1489 – India Battle Axe. Blade engraved on both sides. Edge of blade has brass cover to protect the sharpness, Wood shaft with tigerstripe grain. VG. $17.50
circa 1950’s…i think that was the date on the cover before it got torn off and vanished. On pg 190 thrown amidst the Indian arms section [...]

Tales and traditions of Hungary, by F. and T. Pulszky 1851

More on Janosik (named spelled diffent each time I run across it!) and his mighty magical axe!

His strength was unparalleled, and
the supernatural axe he possessed made him
quite unconquerable. Whenever it was flung,
it hit the aim, and then returned into the hands
of Yanoshik, as the iron to the magnet.
Yanoshik listened awhile, then stepped into the
room, mixed [...]

More on the death of Janosik…his hatchet was magic but not magic enough to save him.

The English Illustrated Magazine 1888
The soldiers were armed with muskets, Yanosik only had his hatchet. As they fired he caught the bullets in his hand and threw them in the soldiers’ faces (for a bullet could never hit him). Then he cried ” Chop, hatchet ! ” Upon which his hatchet chopped down some of [...]

Matijko the dancer

On the High Uplands Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians by Stanislaw Vincenz

….One day young Matijko of Kryworiwnia, a son of Foka’s friend Fedore, turned up in Sziget for the market. He was not a lad, he was a robust young beech-tree. He always spent his summers in the forest below Czarnohora. In [...]

More Dancing

From: On the High Uplands
Sagas, Songs, Tales and Legends of the Carpathians
by Stanislaw Vincenz
Dancing around Dmytryk
pg 120
They danced the festive dance with axes. The old, grey-headed and shaggy-haired delegates danced, the young, curly-headed delegates danced. And as they danced they sang very ancient songs and carols. Only Dmytryk stood in the midst of them, brandishing [...]

Atlas of legal medicine By Eduard Hofmann 1898 a brutal murder

Hole-fracture (Lochhruch) Produced hy a Blow with the
Cutting-edge of a Hatchet.
In Vicuna, in 1884, a banker and his two children were killed hy
anarchists. On the body of one boy there was found a roundish fracture
in the occipital region: on that of the other a regular rectangular
fracture (lochhrnch) with dentate edges, in the middle of the [...]