Chapbook - a small, self-published booklet or pamphlet, perhaps of poems. See //msms.essortment.com/whatisachap_rlmn. Even you could do one for yourself. Zoli at 94.
Cachtice - Zoli was given a book as a child, "The Lady of Cachtice." Soli 54. We think that here is the Castle Cachtice, Slovakia - its location and outline match those that are affirmatively identified - we passed by at that location, looked up and there was this splendid ruin. Do an images check for Cachtice, see the same tower placement, general shape. This may be in better shape, however, so just might not be it. Many castles on clifftops.
Correction - this site shows another side of the castle, and this does not look like it - see://www.slovakheritage.org/Castles/cachtice.
At least this castle gives you an idea of what things were in the area and interested even a Gypsy child growing up - like anyone else.
This one looks closer, but I think it is Spis Castle, not Cachtice.
Now - if only we had known - Cachtice has a gory history. The Lady is 16th Century's The Bloody Lady of Cachtice, serial killer Elizabeth Bathory, and her portrait is on a mousepad even now being sold on eBay.
She tortured people and invented the Iron Maiden, so they say. Read it at Wikipedia and other sources from a search for her.
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