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"Koštana" Bore Stankovića

"They remember Mitke well. He was a tall, handsome man. He was always kind of thoughtful, preoccupied with thoughts. He had a red scar on his cheek and a hooked nose. He wore a dolama and chakshiras of a blue-blue color. tassel. It was surrounded by a syllable, a special kind of cloth. He liked to dress nicely. That's why he always wore stilettos, patent leather black shoes and white wool socks. And under the dolama, mint embroidered with braids (a vest with narrow sleeves made of heavy silk). It is said that Mitke, constantly persecuted by his brothers in order to give up wandering, begging and sevdah, and oppressed because of that, almost bound by the constant reproaches of his relatives and the bazaar, perhaps more by his conscience, was a real melancholic, silent and as he could be before the world he fled from all seeking only those who would respect him, fearing at the same time his violent nature; at that time only Gypsy musicians could be like that. He always had a leather bag with money in his loins and would always generously distribute it to children. He was a good man, gentle, pleasant and almost shy when he was not caught in the fury of drunkenness and sevdah. But nothing could change him, he remained the same even after the birth of his children; he had two daughters and four sons. And after that, the people of Vranje continued to come to his brothers and say: "There's Mitke still lumping." But the whole story about Mitke doesn't end where Bora's story ends - by forcibly taking Kostana to the village. Mitke failed to overcome his eastern kara-sevdah, so deeply ingrained in his veins. Here is Mitke's real end: one day, before the holiday, when his wife was preparing everything to welcome the guests, Mitke suddenly brought Gypsies to his balcony, who on the eve of the holiday, as if they knew they were playing for their great Mitke for the last time, they call their wives a real, painful set of Vranje songs. That night he was unrestrained, mad as he might never have done it; at one point his wife approached him, begging him to stop because it was a holiday; then, Mitke pulled out a scythe and the woman fell. I guess thinking that he had killed her, Mitke rushed to the room on the balcony. Immediately after that, shots were heard. That was the final end; he killed himself from a holster. But Vranje has not forgotten Mitke to this day. Some people from Vranje were afraid that something would be forgotten from the stories about this romantic hero, and they quickly hurried to prepare the drama "Kostana" after his death. The famous traveling theater from Nis came. Director Stojicevic was the protagonist of Mitka; he came to the house of Stajić's and Mitke's daughter-in-law, it was Arsa's wife who dressed Stojičević so that he looked like a real Mitke. They went into so much detail that Mitke's daughter-in-law drew a stain on his face that Mitke himself had. The first show has begun. That day, Vranje saw its own life on stage for the first time. Mitke appeared followed by an astonishing silence and then I cried. The crow cried. And while today Vranje is once again changing its character and high-rise buildings are replacing the former houses of the house, Mitke's grave still stands next to the old church. Those who raised their hands did not have a place in the cemetery. Mitke remained lonely even after his death. The legend of our Hamlet, as Skerlic called it, has grown into miraculous stories for decades. "

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