A kalászos gabonák hagyományos aratása a moldvai csángóknál
Th e Traditional Harvest of Cereals at the Moldavian Csángós

Summary/Abstract: For the population of Moldova, Roumania, traditionaly not the wheat, but the maize is the main source of carbohydrates. At the Hungarian csángós’ majority residence in the county of Bacău the sowing territory of cereals is only a third part of the maize. In this region the Hungarian csángós, like the neighbouring Romanians, almost exclusively reaped the cereal grain with serrated sickle until the collectivization occurred in the 1960s. Th is operation was carried out by women, the swath-layer of the cutted-off grain, the binding in halfs (“felek”) and the pile of it in crosslinkings (“keresztek”), heaps (“kalangya”) was men’s duty. Th ey harvested with the sickle always uphill, usually in family community, but for faster work oft en organized borrowed work, named “kaláka”. In the second half of the 20th century the transition from sickle to scythe, but the cutted-off grain was still collected in bundles with rake, like the hay. At the transition to scythe, they put on the scythe a kinde of rake-crook “gereblyés kankó” utility, whitch directed in lines the cutted strings. Th e scythe is one of the most respected csangó farm tool.

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