STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2501, sig. 109-12/148

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10. Ut Egerländer at least very rare. All this is expressed in the pure and unadulterated dialect, which is rarely interrupted by a Polish taki or the like. Folk songs have not been preserved, although there are very excellent and sought-after musicians in some villages.But some places have preserved the custom of singing from four-lined local and personal Netur. From the old customs to be asked, shooting at weddings,but abandoned in Novesiolo because of a fire caused by it,the parents' invitation to the weddings is mentioned,whereby they do not bless a saying,because they allegedly do not come to it because of the immediate offer of a schnapps,the sale of the bridal shoe at the wedding meal,the smashing of the harness,which is said to have left in Machliniec,since a bowl of sauce ruined a participant who just stepped into the door the new suit The drinks and the music are paid by the guests. Aud the safes are fed and küchla baked. When a new house is inaugurated we also broken dishes. The furnishings are really Egerländerisch; one sees here and there even the four-poster bed, which one certainly did not take from above On the oven Runs a bench, the beds and upholstery of the real towers, on the walls Jer ond is the Holy Spirit. are mass images of saints and in the flowered plates and pots adorn the Wahmen, before a bed sometimes the skin of a wild sow, wooden shoes and wooden slippers are common, yes the Swabians call the German bohemians even with the nickname "wood pantoffeln". The costume has sometimes disappeared except for the high stockings pulled over the trousers on weekdays and at most the imeEgerland sometimes usual blue work apron.Only with women it still expresses itself in the preference for flowery Fürta.