This game is played by two children. Each of them has a stick, about one meter long. Another smaller stick, about 30 cm long. They placed it on two stones set close together. They decided who would play first by “entoukerna” (a local way to choose). In a circle, they threw their sticks from a […]
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There was no lift, no cement mixer—just a bit of cement, and still, it took us a whole day. We might have gone through fifty sacks, but everyone in the village came together to help.
The anchor was dropped, and the loaders and unloaders transported supplies by boats from and to the shore. But even the boats could not dock at many small ports, so people took off their boots and waded into the water to reach the boat, carrying sacks on their backs.
The saddler had a special chair, which instead of front legs had a piece of tree trunk,and on top of it he carved the various parts of the saddle. Back then, there was no lathe. Everything was done with an adze and a chisel.
The itinerant greengrocer traveled from village to village, carrying baskets loaded on his donkey, filled with vegetables or fruits, and holding his scale, which could be a steelyard or a “fouchti” (a kind of basin used for weighing), or sometimes a spring scale. Going from village to village, he would loudly announce his goods.
Beekeeping is a pleasant and profitable occupation. The bee has excellent organization within its hive and a system for dividing the work. As soon as the young bees emerge from their cells, they take care of the larvae, then they clean the hive, and afterwards they go outside to collect nectar and pollen. The worker […]
The basket’s raw material was made from willow rods or other branches, and rods from split reeds. Back then, when there were no plastic containers and many needs were not met with machines or tools, the basket was very useful and many were made using its rods.
One by one, we gathered the olive fruit— from below, from above, or from the “skamna” (a small stool). We didn’t let a single olive go to waste. We would go around the bushes near the olive tree, just in case an olive was hiding there. Early in the morning, we would gather as a […]
While for other hardships we went out before dawn, for threshing we went only when “the day had risen,” because the ears of grain would “rest” at night and couldn’t be cut if we started too early in the morning. Nevertheless, we all went to the threshing floor. Many had “volosyris” (a type of sickle).