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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling – Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales
This vintage work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies used among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archaeology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason. Now that we seek with resolution to find the whole truth, be it based on materialism, spiritualism, or their identity, we are amazed to find that the realm of marvel and mystery, of wonder and poetry, connected with what we vaguely call ?magic,? far from being explained away or exploded, enlarges before us as we proceed, and that not into a mere cloudland, gorgeous land, but into a country of reality in which men of science who would once have disdained the mere thought thereof are beginning to stray.
Gypsy’s Parson: His Experiences and Adventures, The
"The Gypsy's Parson: his experiences and adventures" by Lincolnshire rector of Ruckland George Hall. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Incidents in a Gipsy’s Life
"Incidents in a Gipsy's Life" by George Smith. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten?or yet undiscovered gems?of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
NAN OF THE GYPSIES – a Coming of Age Novel
A FREE ?Coming of Age? YA novel about Gypsy and Roma folk in America's Western states. ? Nan is an orphan child travelling with a gypsy caravan in California. She is adopted and educated by a wealthy woman who loves her as if she were her own child. Her benefactress loses her fortune, but Nan does her part to help the household survive economically. When her long lost uncle arrives from Romania, Nan learns that her father was a famous Gypsy musician and her mother came from a wealthy and important Romanian family. When her mother and father died unexpectedly when she was a baby, she was given to her father?s sister to be raised among the Gypsies. Difficulties among the Gypsy clan forced her to leave the caravan, and thus she was adopted and raised by the wealthy woman. In the end, a neighbour boy who has loved Nan for years, proposes and they get married. They go on a Gypsy honeymoon in a ?roulotte.? (round-topped wooden caravan pulled by horse). What happens next you ask? Well, you?ll just have to download and read this FREE book to find out for yourself. NOTE: Some interesting parts of this story are that this book was written in 1926, and it takes place in southern California. The band of Gypsies were in fact, trying to go over the border into Mexico. TAGS: Nan of the Gypsies, California, American Gypsies, Romania, benefactress, fortune, loses, assist, economically, caravan, roulette, horse-pulled, love, proposal, marriage, gypsy honeymoon, adventure, coming of age, YA, young adult, round-topped, growing up, maturing, teenage, educated,
Romano LaVO-Lil Word-Book of the Romany or English Gypsy Language With Specimens of Gypsy Poetry
Originally published in 1874. The book also contains specimens of Gypsy poetry, and an account of certain Gypsyries and of various things relating to Gypsy life in England. Contents include: The Gypsy Language - Word Book of the Romany - Gypsy verbs - Little Sayings - The Lord's Prayer in Gypsy Dialect - Book of Wisdom of the Egyptians - Gypsy names of Countries and Towns - English Gypsy Songs - Foreign Gypsy Songs - The English Gypsies - Gypsy names - Fortune Telling - Metropolitan Gypsies - Famous Gypsies. Etc