Welcome to the Magical and Mysterious World of the Puli
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Welcome to the Magical and Mysterious World of the Puli
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The Hungarian Puli Introduction Index
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In Hungarian "puszta" refers to prairie type land, bare and empty, on which extensive herds of cattle and horses, large flocks of sheep, roar freely. The herdsmen who in days gone by, tended the animals lived a semi nomadic live, moving the herds and flocks from one area to another. However, despite its name, the puszta is by no means a wilderness. It does lack woods, trees such as poplars and birches stand alone, there can be the occasional thin scrub land or patches of barren sand. Melting snow in the puszta areas would cause the rivers to flood every year, forming extensive swamps. The water receded in the summer, leaving highly suitable land for grazing. The climate is continental in character, short very hard winters, hot summers and moderately mild long springs and autumns. This suitable climate permits the animals begin kept in the open for most of the year. Offering an endless vista, a feeling of freedom and independence, the puszta is a place where the earth meets the sky, broken occasionally by the spire of a church or farm building. A place to forget the busy life of a city, somewhere to be more in rhythm with nature. The seasons bring their own uniqueness, in summer the heat can create mirages, imaginary villages or lakes forming against the sky. In winter, covered in deep bright white snow, which can be as deceptive as it is beautiful. Spring, the time for the herds to be released from their winter housing, to be let free again into the fresh air, probably filled with the scent of sage and mint.
Nowadays the old puszta has gone for ever, agriculture has changed in so many ways as has the production of items previously produced by the craftsmanship of the herdsmen and his family. Goods carefully made for little reward, now produced from factories. Thus to those same factories the younger people of the puszta now go to seek and find employment.
On the plains themselves, instead of flocks and herds, tractors till the land that is now being artificially irrigated, in preparation for crops.
A Puszta farmhouse scene of many years ago
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