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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. I, No. 4, November, 1945

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HUNGARIAN LYING-CONTEST TALES ABOUT AMERICA
Herbert Halpert

MY MOTHER, Mrs. Bertha Ziegler Halpert of New York City, related these stories which she had heard from her own mother more than forty years ago in Hungary. She told them in English, but when questioned about some of the wording, first recalled the Hungarian phrases and then translated them literally. The stories are given as she dictated them and with her explanatory remarks.

“They were told in Eperjes, a city not far from the Carpathians. People used to talk about America—what a wonderful country it was. Those who didn’t know believed anything about America. People who were here would send home money and dress lengths of silk—things that were very expensive at home but not too expensive here. Those back in Hungary got a completely distorted idea of what America was like in those days. To the peasants the money they made here seemed fortunes. So then they came home and exaggerated these fortunes tenfold.”
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