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The Book of Vagabonds And Beggars edited by Martin Luther translated by John Camden Hotten

The Book of Vagabonds And Beggars edited by Martin Luther translated by John Camden Hotten

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Editor
Luther, Martin, 1483-1546
Title
The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars, with a Vocabulary of Their Language
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
Subject
German language -- Slang
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46287
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46287
Release Date
July 15, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BOOK OF VAGABONDS AND BEGGARS. — PREFACE. — CONTENTS. — INTRODUCTION. — LIBER VAGATORUM — MARTIN LUTHER — ENGLISH BOOKS ON VAGABONDS — ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF ENGLISH BEGGARS — GERMAN ORIGIN OF TRICS PRACTISED BY ENGLISH VAGABONDS — OLD GERMAN CANT WORDS — THE BOOK OF VAGABONDS AND BEGGARS WITH A PREFACE BY MARTIN LUTHER — MARTIN LUTHER’S PREFACE. — ¶ Part the First of this little Book .
  2. 2.Of the Bregers or Beggars
  3. 3.Of the Stabülers, or Bread Gatherers.
  4. 4.Of the Lossners, or liberated Prisoners.
  5. 5.Of the Klenkners, or Cripples.
  6. 6.Of Dobissers, or Dopfers, Church-mendicants.
  7. 7.Of Kammesierers, or Learned Beggars.
  8. 8.Of Vagrants (Vagierern), or Strollers.
  9. 9.Of the Grantners, or Knaves with the falling Sickness.
  10. 10.Of the Dutzers.
  11. 11.Of Schleppers, or False Begging Priests.
  12. 12.Of the Gickisses, or Blind Beggars.
  13. 13.Of the Schwanfelders, Blickschlahers, or Naked Beggars.
  14. 14.Of the Voppers, or Demoniacs.
  15. 15.Of the Dallingers, or Hangmen.
  16. 16.Of the Dützbetterins, or Lying-in Women.
  17. 17.Of the Süntvegers, or (pretended) Murderers.
  18. 18.Of the female Süntvegers.
  19. 19.Of the Bil-wearers, or (pretended) pregnant Women.
  20. 20.Of the Virgins (Jungfrauen), or pretended Lepers.
  21. 21.Of the Mümsen, or Spurious Beggars.
  22. 22.Of the Over-Sönzen-Goers, or pretended Noblemen and Knights.
  23. 23.Of the Kandierers, or pretended Mercers.
  24. 24.Of the Veranerins, or baptized Jewesses.
  25. 25.Of Christianers, Calmierers, or (pretended) Pilgrims.
  26. 26.Of the Seffers, or Salvers.
  27. 27.Of the Schweigers, or the Jaundiced.
  28. 28.Of the Burkhart.
  29. 29.Of the Platschierers, or Blind Harpers. — ¶ The Second Part. — ¶ THE THIRD PART OF THIS LITTLE BOOK IS THE VOCABULARY. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber note:

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