Cilibi Moise, Moldavian Romanian journalist and author (born 1812)

Cilibi Moise

19th-century Romanian folklorist

Cilibi Moise or Cilibi Moisi was a Moldavian-born Wallachian and Romanian peddler, humorist, aphorist, and raconteur. He is best known for the aphorisms and anecdotes attributed to him, which, although recorded in Romanian, represent an important segment of the local secular…