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They steal horses, don’t they? (Căpitane de judeţ / To a county captain)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Vasile

In Romanian, when someone gets a good beating, one can say they hit him like a horse thief. That’s what usually happened to horse thieves when they were caught. And in the rural regions of Wallachia and Moldova there were a lot of thieves and rustlers hiding out in the thickets. Sure, the forests aren’t […]

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