AUTHOR’S NOTE
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AUTHOR’S NOTEHungarians are passionate, romantic and wild underneath their charming exterior. The very intensity and strength of their feelings exemplifies their characters and their outlook on life.
They are often a bewildering people to outsiders. They have an enormous capacity for enjoyment and tenacious friendships.
They are easy-going, but, once they are roused, nothing will stop them.
For a national cause a Magyar will do anything. Love of his country is impregnated into his very being and at its call he will commit himself to sublime sacrifice.
Music, like love, is in their blood. For generations the gypsies have stirred the souls of man with their music.
The Csdrdds, a tavern dance, originated in the nineteenth century. The gypsy beauty, the gypsy madness, the fierce passion, unutterable sadness, their love and rage, is all to be found in it.
Among the peasants, the magic of the gypsy is far more potent in cases of real need than the supernatural powers claimed by the Priests of any Church.
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