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- Professor, what are you doing? We have to start the picture.
- Inhalation by mulberry is good for lungs.
- Dear friends, welcome to another TV show 'Historical Truths'.
Today we talk about the representative sort of tree from the ground of Vojvodina.
I will have the help of our old friend and well-known Doctor, Academician now, Mr. Kisprdilov Svetislav.
- Kisprdilov Svetislav.
- How to start the topic but with the saying of our elders from the local:
"One has not felt the luck if he did not held the branch of mulberry in his hands".
- Dear Dado! What are you telling in front of the people?! What are you telling?
What have you hold in your palms, I do not follow you?
If it can't be recorded well, then you cannot record me at all.
What was I holiding in my hands?
- No professor, that was about mulberry. Never mind.
Professor, mulberry is the representative plant from Vojvodina.
Why does it disappear? Let's stop here.
- Because mulberry disappears, just like the brandy made of it.
You can't find it anywhere!
Where are those round bottles that once existed and had had fifteen kilos?!
There is no brandy anymore, and it was that nice, white one, beautiful...
- We talk about brandy, but we must not recommend the alchocol until nine o'clock in the evening.
What about mulberry-tree?
- It is a tree and its leaves drop off, round top and the fruits can be white or black.
You can make a brandy from them, that sweet brandy, white one and excellent to drink.
It existed once and could have been drunk during the whole day.
Some Bosnian people who lived at my place had had it.
I tell you, they used to make it and it was a wonderful brandy!
- Professor, this is something you have sent me, it is a list from the mid 19th century...
- Yes it is. It is from the mid 19th century, yes.
- It was writen by a well-known cartographer, Ernest Vetostoholovic.
- ''U'' - Vetustuhulovich.
- Who has been near Mol at that time and who drew some maps and charts there.
Our dear watchers, he says: "Here live some interesting folks...
The old ones dangle while walking down the streets,...
... and children go out from the gates in shadow and observe the walkers as if being some ghosts,...
... yet they are being dark blue from their eyes to their lips...
... as those never dead appearances from the Rumija's Dvorzaks."
- As those never dead appearances from Rumija's Dvorzaks.
- What does this writing actually mean?
- It was like that because mulberra was once eaten in large amounts.
They would eat it and then stayed with the blue spots all around their lips.
And their fingers would remain all blue and could not be washed.
And on your feet and their skin it would stick to your heel and you drag the mulberry for six months then on.
Afterwards, they noticed it could be cooked, and then they made brandy.
This brandy was known with its name: crazy-mulberry-brandy.
People say it was the strongest brandy that has been ever made.
Who tried it once it was known to burn your container two meters down...
...and then it would go to into the gorund, do you understand?
- Yes.
- Then they told me one may have halucinations after drinking it.
Some people have seen some white man, and the others saw something else.
I have seen a dark child, occasionaly.
But I see him constantly, and it is hanging down from the tree,
God help him, and he is turned upside down.
Its small head is down so that he could hurt his nose easily.
Afterwards he comes down, puts something on his legs
and walks throughout my house speaking in Serbian, to get on my nerves only.
- Very well professor.
- Like a goose he makes some movements like this up and down, like he is eating.
Professor, let us turn to your record that you brought to us from the last mulberry festival.
- That is right, Dado. It is a record from the festival of mulberry in Kovilj.
There was one of my great friends who was a judge, Junacki Dule.
He has stopped the competition in the fast drink of mulberry brandy in the finals,
... and he gave his announcement to the press.
Let the audience see what they have done there.
Let them see the picture. His name is Janacki Dule.
- Professor, give me your bag, please.
- Why? Why should I give it to you? It is my bag.
- So, the competitor Jakic Milovan has rised the leg of the calf in the calf-yard.
He had a foam on his mouth, when the main judge approached to tell him not to do such thing...
... and to be as decent as it was possible if he wanted to continue to drink.
The competitor, a fool, has rised in his old army green shirt with long sleeves...
... and of class A, tried to strangle the official person.
He imagined he was a kind of a deadly snake who came to suck the calfs bag.
I beg you and I hope that the next year these irregularities would be abandoned and...
Jokicu leave me alone!!! DO not touch me!!! Jokicu it is not the dug!
Jokicu - you...fool! Ahhh! I won't let!!!
- Come. Come. I have a hand of mulberry fruits to give you.
- But the cameraman is one of us.
- Come, come, come near, come here... Come, come, come...
- Let us finish...professor...?
- But it is a dark child. Come..approach... come closer...to me
- Let us say good bye to the audience... Professor!!! Professor!!!
But you have eaten a kilo of mulberry.
Can we finish a single TV show?!!! Professor?!!