KALLÓDÓ KÉZIRATOK
LOST MANUSCRIPTS

Summary/Abstract: During local history research, three ethnographic collections were found in Bácskossuthfalva. None of them were collected by an ethnographer, and their scientific value is uncertain. Still, it is worth talking about them, since few people know about the collections from 50–60 years ago today, and it is questionable whether any of the specialists know their content. In 1961, Lajos Dévay won third prize and a cash prize of 10,000 dinars for his local collection at the ethnographic collection competition of the Hungarian Department of Novi Sad. Anna Gracza, a graduate student of the Pedagogical Academy in Subotica, wrote her thesis in 1978 entitled Moravica’s proverbs, sayings and idioms. In the preface, she emphasizes that her goal was to collect and systematize living proverbs, sayings and idioms. In 1979, Edit Kimeri won the Képes Ifjúság book package at the ethnographic collection competition of the Institute of Hungarian Language, Literature and Hungarological Research.1 The 18 typewritten pages of the study provide an overview of the burial customs of Ómorovica. In my report (as a non-expert), I present the content of these three studies and discuss their expected, uncertain fate. It is possible that they will be lost or simply merged into another collection without a source reference.

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