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#1 The story of Roza Rozalina, a Romanian legend, is told at the festival of Roza Rozalina every August. In this same village, a real dwarf was born in 1868. He was the third pregnancy for Frieda Ovitz, and having already given birth to a healthy daughter and son, she was distressed to discover that her baby had stopped moving inside her.

#2 The Jewish community in Transylvania had a tradition of blessing those who were deformed, as a way of overcoming the initial repulsion and making the deformed person equal to everyone else. But Shimshon Eizik was upset to learn that Judaism tended to exalt those blessed with a perfect body.

#3 Shimshon Eizik Ovitz was a rabbi who was searching for a bride. He chose Brana Fruchter, from the nearby village of Moisei. The wedding was a huge event that called for perfection: opulent food, impeccable service, the finest tableware, and ravishing clothes.

#4 Ovitz would book himself months in advance for weddings. He would write songs and ditties based on the family histories, rumors, and gossip he had gathered. He would then make the bride and her all-female entourage laugh with his verses.