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Audio Recording Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois

Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois

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Title

  • Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois

Names

  • Bartis, Peter, 1949- (Collector)
  • Lecas, Maria (Interviewee)
  • Siakotos, Theodora (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Palos Hills, Illinois, April 19, 1977

Headings

  • -  Greek Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Palos Hills

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Mrs. Theodora Siakotos & Maria Lecas, part 1
  • -  Interview about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, with Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas at the home of Mrs. Siakotos in Palos Hills; topics include discussion of embroidered Byzantine cross design; about Mrs. Siakotos's design and color preferences, yel1ox and gold; discussion of coffee cup rending by Maria Lecas, cup belonging to fieldworker Peter Bartis, about the attitude towards this, preparing of the cup, turning it over, straining grounds and drying; Mrs. Siakotos tells about an Irish woman who gave a valid tea leaf reading; Maria Lecas observes that young unmarried girls often read cups, how one reads a cup, seeing birds and animals and being more sensitive; Maria reads fieldworker Jonas Dovydenas’s cup and then the cup of Mrs Siakotos; observation made that fortune telling is contrary to church doctrine; about the attitude of Mrs. Siakotos’s young daughter, who thinks it is dumb; Mrs. Siakotos tells about a man in the market who gave her a cheap gold chain and Maria's response; Mrs. Siakotos tells about another man who complained about a woman was working at the cash register where she always works; discussion of folk medical practices, vendouzes (cupping), letting blood from newborns to prevent pimples when older, beliefs and practices associated with a baby "born with a veil," how in the northern part of Greece women give birth standing up to avoid suffocating the newborn; Maria Lecas discusses reading palms and faces; duration of this recording, 23 minutes.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20525a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0602
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T002-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Bartis, Peter, Maria Lecas, and Theodora Siakotos. Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois. Palos Hills, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20525a/.

APA citation style:

Bartis, P., Lecas, M. & Siakotos, T. (1977) Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois. Palos Hills, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20525a/.

MLA citation style:

Bartis, Peter, Maria Lecas, and Theodora Siakotos. Interview with Mrs. Theodora Siakotos and Maria Lecas about embroidery, coffee cup reading, and folk healing practices, part 2, Palos Hills, Illinois. Palos Hills, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20525a/>.