Johann Georg Kohl 1843

Austria, Vienna, Hungary, Bohemia and the Danube, Galicia, Styria, Moravia, Buckovina, and the military frontier Johann Georg Kohl 1843 ” It is often very difficult,” continued my informant, ” to say whether these Bacony foresters are swineherds or robbers. Their wandering and uncertain mode of life, and their superiority in strength to their more settled [...]

Shchastlyvyj Novyj Rok!

Happy New year… in Rusyn: Shchastlyvyj Novyj Rok! Slovak: šastný nový rok Magyar: Boldog uj evet Romanian: La Multi Ani si Un An Nou Fericit Polish: Szczesliwego Nowego Roku    

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, [...]

The War in Hungary, 1848-1849 By Max Schlesinger

Any firearms peeping out of a carriage-window commonly sufficed to keep such fellows at a respectful distance, as the swineherd is never armed with any other weapon than his fokos. The fokos is a hatchet, with a long handle, which the Kanasz hurls with great dexterity. Whenever he desires to pick out and slaughter one [...]

Bleiknopf peitsche

Adventures and Anecdotes of the South Army of the Emperor of Austria, During the Late Hungarian Campaign: Narrated by Eye-witnesses By John William Warre Tyndale Published by R. Bentley, 1850 He was no less famous as a marksman than as a rider, and his ” poor fellows” were equally well trained ; but, besides fire-arms, [...]

Magyar pásztorbotoló 1974 Shepherd stick dance

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 [...]