Hétfalusi csángó népmesék; Magyar népköltési gyüjtemény 10. kötet
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The volume gathers traditional narratives collected from a Hungarian-speaking Csángó community, opening with an ethnographic introduction that situates the tellers, dialect, and local history. The main body presents numerous folk tales—animal and monster encounters, helpful and trickster figures, princes and peasants undergoing tests, magical objects and transformations, saintly and demonic interventions, and motifs of rescue, cleverness, and reward—offering variant versions of familiar motifs alongside distinctive local color. Notes and dialect glosses accompany the texts to aid readers and scholars.
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