„Rózsi néni! Gyütött-e?”
“Aunt Rózsi! Have You Been Gathering …?”

Additional Data to the Traditional Gathering Activity of the Moldavian Hungarians

Summary/Abstract: The traditional activity when people gather the products of nature necessary for basic living without replacing them is called gathering in ethnography. There are three groups of this activity practiced by Moldavian Hungarians. They could collect non-living materials, such as soil, stones, oil, fresh water and salt water, as well as living materials and living creatures: plants for food and healing, for feeding the animals or for other purposes, animals and animal products, such as insects, crabs, snails, turtles, bird eggs, and dry manure. As a result of the transformation of traditional peasant life, nowadays the different forms of gathering are becoming less frequent.

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