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Encyclopedia > Hutsul

Hutsuls or Huculs (Ukrainian: Гуцули, singular Гуцул) are a group of Ukrainian highlanders, considered a subgroup of Rusyns by some references. Alternative spellings are Hutzuls, Gutsuls, Gutzuls, Guculs.


Huculs live in the Carpathian mountains to the east of the Lemkos and border with the territory of the Romanians. As a result, their traditional culture bears traces of Balkan influence. Their traditional occupations were cattle and sheep breeding, forestry and logging.


Huculs are also widely known of their handicraft: wood carving, brassworks, rug weaving, pottery, egg decorating (see pysanka).


Sergei Parajanov's film The Shadows of forgotten ancestors (Тіні забутих предків) portrays traditional Hucul life.


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The document says that a Hutsul woman was accused of setting fire to a landowner’s house and found guilty of arson, for which crime she was sentenced to death and executed.
Hutsul applied and decorative art is in demand — many of the Hutsul works of decorative art have found their way to private and public collections in many countries of the world.
Hutsuls also remember well that the geographical centre of Europe is situated in their land, in the town of Rakhiv, and being right in the centre of Europe, they are not in a hurry to leave their mountains.
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