Аркан – Arkan – heroic warriors dance of Ukrainian hutsuls (instrumental)

8qa7X-NlNx4 Not a dance video despite the name…there are some interesting images shown under the song. The knife is particularly interesting.

ROUMANIAN SMUGGLERS.

CHATTER BOX Published for the Proprietors by W. WELLS GARDNER, 10 Paternoster Row, London. Printed by John Strangeways,] [Castle Street, Leicester Square No. 18. March 30, 1872. Weekly—One Halfpenny. ROUMANIAN SMUGGLERS. ROUMANIA, otherwise called Wallachia and Moldavia, a country watered by the Danube, and not far from the Black Sea, is inhabited by a wild [...]

1844 Description of the “mountaineers” in the Carpathians.

“The mountaineers here are called Huzzulen as in Bukovina. We found two of them sitting by the fire at the inn, leaning upon their hatchets. They told us that they were never without their hatchets, that they travelled with them, danced with them, and wore them as a part of their Sunday finery. They went [...]

E-tool clip

Here is a short clip I made showing the basic defensive motions I use when working with the e-tool. All these motions will work just as well with a hatchet sized axe.

Russian peasant in 1812 British Caricature

From wiki A redrawn version of a Russian caricature (on Napoleon’s 1812 campaign in Russia) by British artist George Cruikshank. A Russian peasant holds a bloody axe above Frenchman’s head, ready to strike. On the ground are the bodies of two French officers, whose skulls have been split by the Russian soldier’s axe. British caricature. [...]

Zbojnicki Dance

  The Dances of Podhale (Poland) Joseph Needham Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec., 1937), pp. 117-119  

Universal Geography 1828

  “Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables” By Conrad Malte-Brun Published by Wells and Lilly, 1828   The peasantry form the great mass of the people, their costume is well fitted [...]

Austria: Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire 1828

  Austria: Containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire By Frederic Shoberl Published by C. S. Williams, 1828 The usual costume of the peasants of the Bukowina, consists of white or red trowsers, a shirt, the wide, open sleeves of which are embroidered at the wrist, [...]

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire 1808

Travels Through Several Provinces of the Russian Empire: With an Historical Account of the Zaporog Cossacks, and of Bessarabia, Moldavia, Wallachia and the Crimea By Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen, Freiherr von Pierce Balthasar Campenhausen Published by Printed for Richard Phillips, by J.G. Barnard, 1808 The external appearance of the Wallachians, forms a singular contrast with the [...]

Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World 1829

Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New Plan, According to the Great Natural Divisions of the Globe; Accompanied with Analytical, Synoptical, and Elementary Tables By Conrad Malte-Brun Published by A. Finley., 1829 The lowlanders of past times let no opportunity escape of harassing the mountaineers, who, irritated or [...]