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The name “Old Woman from Mrtnice" (village of Mrtník, District of Plzeň-North) covers Anna Brejchalová (1833-1918) and her daughter-in-law Marie Brejchalová-Pašková (1882-1977), née Frundlová, two significant persons in the field of folk healing in western Bohemia in the 19th and 20th century. They realigned fractured bones, dislocated joints, and newborn infants´ hip joints. The authors reconstruct their healing practice based on period literature and respondents´ recollections.
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The systematic research into and documentation of vernacular architecture, the beginnings of which could be observed no later than from the time of the preparations for the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition, developed fully at the beginning of the 1950s. The research followed older research and documentation works carried out by the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Society from its foundation in 1891, it included monographs devoted to selected locations/regions and evolved to a systematic ethnographic inventory during the first half of the 20th century. The architect Jiří Waage took part in the researches in 1953-1962.
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