Very nice book but I had expected something more... tangible.

First off, I highly appreciate the effort Margit went through to write this book as, as she said, material written in other-than-Hungarian languages are few and far between, and this book is very accessible. There's a wide range of myths, related entities, magical customs or folk belief shared within this book from (mostly) days past and in some cases retained today in various forms.

I did miss some myths or entities I'd heard about elsewhere, like the children of Arany Atyácska (the golden father/ Isten) and Hajnal Anyácska (the dawn mother): Hadúr, Napkirály and Szélkirály, or the myth where the son took seeds out of the sea which became the magyar (i believe the word for seed and eyes was related), or the elemental spirits (man & woman of fire/water).

While the creative practitioner might be able to gleam some ways to adapt these customs or beliefs to their modern life, this is likely easier for dual-faith practitioners or Christian witches judging by how this is how most customs survived today. I do appreciate more historical context to these customs where it applied, but I had expected there to be more talk of modern practitioners of these magical or folk practices. Margit briefly noted exactly this during the conclusion regarding her own life, but I think this could've deserved its own chapter to complement the rest and round it out beyond mere interesting information. To get more ideas how one might explore that for themselves (or where to find the people who do with the examples of certain terminology they might use for it). I suppose one might more easily do this having the text edition in front of them than the audio, being able to see some of the terminology mentioned throughout in written form, and it's in no a critique on the value still held within this book, just a wish I myself had while listening to this book. I do think I've been convinced to purchase a print copy for my personal collection despite having already listened to the entire book once, to help me further explore as I try to rediscover the culture of my great grandmother which she sadly didn’t share with us here in the Netherlands.

Margit. Hála neked, rengeteget tanultam!

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