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We Aren't Shouting, We Talk Like This
That's US
Lika’s rugged and resilient people who are willing and fearless to deal with life’s difficulties, as Mirko Markovic says, “have always been friendly people, but careful enough in contact with strangers and strangers. mountaineers.The Croatian people are very diverse as a result of the tragic division of the Croatian people throughout history. I wanted to write a little about the people that you’re about to encounter because they are quite special to me. They might always look like they are angry or worried about something but their smile can part the clouds and their hugs can crack your ribs so be careful who you hug here.
Descendants Of Unfortunates And Heroes
The people living in this area are considered to be the descendants of those unfortunates and heroes who have historically taken on their shoulders the greatest burden in stopping the Turks on their way to the West. Centuries of wars, not only with the Ottomans but also with other uninvited newcomers, as well as the cruelty of the climate in which they lived, made the Dinaric Croats people who adorned many beautiful human qualities: endurance, courage, devotion, honesty and pride. Truth be told, it should not be kept secret that these people are also adorned with some less desirable habits that they have acquired due to the cruelty of life and centuries of struggles for survival. We must remember that many greats emerged in Lika, such as Nikola Tesla, Ante Starčević and Eugen Kvaternik. Even today, many believe that the people of Lika are fragile and resilient people who are ready and fearless to cope with life’s difficulties. The people of Lika have always been friendly people, but careful enough in contact with strangers and strangers. The people of Lika carry all the typical characteristics of Dinaric mountaineers. These are people who have always cared about family life, friendships and kinship connection.
And something else adorns the people; they have always readily subordinated their personal interests and the interests of their families to the interests of the wider community, and above all to the interests of their homeland and their Croatian people, suffering for centuries sacrifices that are difficult to describe. Apart from the fact that the people of Lika differ from other Croats in customs, diet, songs, dances and costumes, they also differ from them in the way they speak. People always speak very loudly and decisively, so it seems to the interlocutor that they shout more than they normally speak. Some believe that the people of Lika are always direct in conversation. But most often it is not worth it, at least not when it comes to older people from Lika: they are in expression cautious and calculated and do not state their position immediately directly. If they are asked to make a final judgment about something, they will try to avoid it with so-called ambiguous sayings such as “this is how it is narrated”, “this is how it is heard”, and the like.
All this refers mostly to the people of Lika who lived in the distant past, a little less to the people of Lika from the recent past, and least to the modern people of Lika. Today’s people from Lika are less and less different from people in other parts of Croatia due to new civilizational achievements and new social circumstances. However, in the first contact with Ličanin, his regional affiliation will usually be recognized even today, before he himself proudly points out that he is from Lika, the most beautiful region in the world where, as he will boast, his Lika mountains are green, picturesque karst fields, blue and busty rivers, his Velebit and above all his Plitvice Lakes. And let us not forget: wherever they live, and are scattered from Alaska to Australia, the Lichans are extremely attached to their Lika; they are always remembered, often with a lot of nostalgia, his Lika homeland. This is best illustrated by our famous Ličanka and theater artist Nela Eržišnik Blažević in a text in which she writes with a lot of love about Otočac, in which she spent part of her childhood.
Do You Know What 'Basa' Is?
Basa is a type of soft cheese that resembles today’s cheese spreads. People do not eat bass as a spread, but with a spoon with bread or polenta. My mother prepared this dish by adding some sour milk or yogurt to the boiled lukewarm milk and stirring the mixture well and keeping it in a warm place for at least 12 hours to allow the mixture to coagulate. She then placed the hardened mixture in a canvas bag which she tied and hung in a suitable place to drain the cheese completely. She put the resulting cheese in a bowl, salted it and added a little cream and butter, after which she mixed everything well. On the basa thus obtained, she would put, if she had at her disposal, a few slices of Lika škripavac cheese (for 4 people you need about 4 l of milk, a glass of sour milk or yoghurt, 2 tablespoons of cream, a tablespoon of butter and 20 dag of Lika škripavac cheese).
Lika Folk Sayings
- If you give even the best foals into the hands of a bad master, he never parries from him.
- Whoever talks a lot ’bout themselves can’t trust a word they say
- You can drink brandy for everyone, wine for someone, and water for no one
- One soldier nothing, a hundred soldier army
Lika Puzzels
- He howls in the forest, but isn’t a wolf?
- When he goes to the water, he leaves his stomach at home?
- What is a black horse that comes out of the river?
- Who gets hit on it’s head the most?
My grandpa used to tell me these and a lot of others that don’t quite translate from Croatian to English. Feel free to ask for the answers once you get here.