author
János Varga
1844–1881
A 19th-century Hungarian scholar remembered for exploring folklore and popular belief, he is best known for a prize-winning study of superstition in Hungarian life. His work is still noted as an early, valuable record of folk traditions and everyday fears, charms, and beliefs.
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A babonák könyve
by János Varga
About the author
Little biographical information was easy to confirm, but sources agree that he was a 19th-century Hungarian writer and scholar associated with the study of folklore and superstition.
He is best known for A babonák könyve (The Book of Superstitions), published in 1877. The book gathers and discusses Hungarian superstitions, including beliefs about witchcraft, ghosts, curses, fortune-telling, and other folk practices, and it has been described as an important early contribution to Hungarian ethnographic study.
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