Povolání našich předků - Od formanů k silákům – Jarolímková Stanislava (2021)

The book will introduce you to how our ancestors secured their livelihoods for themselves and their families in the past. Some used crafts, while others engaged in transportation, healing, hospitality, writing, illustrating, and printing newspapers and books, or various ways of entertaining audiences. You will also read about lesser-known curiosities that may surprise you, and additionally discover how industrious, thoughtful, and inventive people were in the past. For example, you will learn: • what the difference was between wire workers and wire drawers, • that Maria Theresa promoted vaccination as early as the 18th century, • why the first X-ray in our country was placed in a hotel, • that apothecaries sold ear straighteners, cat fat, and pig teeth, • why traders sometimes bit into certain coins, • what hucksters and pie sellers sold, • what executioners secretly traded, • why miners brought birds or rodents into the mines in cages, • what potato theaters were, • how ventriloquists and reiterators worked, • why fairground singers often had a dog with them.