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Dunamelléki eredeti népmesék (2. kötet)

Chapter 13: Transcriber’s Note:
By László Merényi
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A collection of traditional tales from the Dunamellék region that retells rural folktales centered on magical helpers, tests of character, and negotiated rewards. Episodes recount people lost in the forest aided by a speaking hedgehog, bargains that bind rescuers and rescued, and sequences of quests, clever devices, and marriages arranged as compensation. Stories move between comic cunning and moral lessons, using repetitive motifs—threefold promises, animal mediators, and household hospitality—to explore fate, reciprocity, and social bonds in a compact, orally rooted narrative style.

Transcriber’s Note:

Alternative spellings have been retained as they appear in the original.

List of corrected typographical errors:

  • Page 24, "közepénmárványpalotám" changed to "közepén márványpalotám"
  • Page 28, "vén csont‘" changed to "vén csont,"
  • Page 36, "aranyos é ezüstös" changed to "aranyos és ezüstös"
  • Page 59, "egy szem rizská s át" changed to "egy szem rizskását"
  • Page 59, "„Hogyha én még" changed to "Hogyha én még"
  • Page 65, "Nem parancsolo k én" changed to "Nem parancsolok én"
  • Page 95, "juhok megugrsnak" changed to "juhok megugranak"
  • Page 100, "édes anyja szeme t" changed to "édes anyja szemét"
  • Page 113, "nagy vigaság" changed to "nagy vigasság"
  • Page 122, "szinte a hatán" changed to "szinte a hátán"
  • Page 133, "annyi iskol át" changed to "annyi iskolát"
  • Page 146, "mégis éhezett, el is fáradt" changed to "megis éhezett, el is fáradt"
  • Page 148, "szekérnek való át" changed to "szekérnek való fát"
  • Page 179, "ki az zal" changed to "ki azzal"
  • Page 183, "A csoda-falevelet 107" changed to "A csoda-falevelek 107"