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.
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.