The rural Alentejo woman walks without hesitation
the road of life,
knows all the secrets of the field
and runs the hardest and most exhausting tasks
Landfrau Die ohne geht aus dem Alentejo Zagen
auf dem sie kennt Lebensweg
Geheimnis des alle Felder
accomplishes and the hardest and most exhausting duties
source
(women with a hoe weeding)
Features:
- daily wage without land ownership
- seasonal work on the estates of the landlords
- weißelt her house with lime twice a year
- has no gold chains, such as the women in the Minho
- washes up daily with water
- Cleans her house and ventilate the rooms regularly
This is in Portugal a very special : was
was viewed with suspicion or reported to the Inquisition.
doctor
describes the stink in Portuguese houses:
there in the houses ....
to certo cheirinho de convento e de Santidad
that certain smell of convent and piety
source
-Irene Vaquinhas: Historia de vida privada em Portugal-
Quoted from : SABADO 01/20/2011 p.30
say:
It stinks when Portuguese women live!
The use of soap was to Pombal only
wealthy Portuguese known
1765
The monopoly of soap production is abolished
because Count Lippe clean soldiers wishes
if the Alentejo smells a lady
is the perfume of an Indian oil
( Indian Patchouli for face makeup )
Odeur of idleness
undoubtedly
a whore
see so singing Alentejofrauen from
in a multi-part women's chorus
on a stage
Ps:
(export to Europe)
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