The Gypsies

About this eBook

Author

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903

Credits

Transcribed from the 1882 Houghton, Mifflin and Company edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

DX: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: History of Romanies

Subject

Romanies

Category

Text

eBook-No.

22939

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22939

Release Date

October 10, 2007

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE GYPSIES
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.THE RUSSIAN GYPSIES. — ST. PETERSBURG. — THE TROIKA. — MOSCOW.
5. 5.AUSTRIAN GYPSIES. — I. — GYPSY SONG. — THE BOHEMIAN. — II. AUSTRIAN GYPSIES IN PHILADELPHIA.
6. 6.ENGLISH GYPSIES. — I. OATLANDS PARK. — THE MONKS OF THE WEY. — II. WALKING AND VISITING. — III. COBHAM FAIR. — IV. THE MIXED FORTUNES. — V. HAMPTON RACES. — VI. STREET SKETCHES. — VII. OF CERTAIN GENTLEMEN AND GYPSIES.
7. 7.WELSH GYPSIES. — I. MAT WOODS THE FIDDLER. — II. THE PIOUS WASHERWOMAN. — III. THE GYPSIES AT ABERYSTWITH.
8. 8.AMERICAN GYPSIES. — I. GYPSIES IN PHILADELPHIA. — II. THE CROCUS-PITCHER. [241] (PHILADELPHIA.) — III. GYPSIES IN CAMP. (NEW JERSEY.) — IV. HOUSE GYPSIES IN PHILADELPHIA — V. A GYPSY LETTER.
9. 9.GYPSIES IN THE EAST.
10. 10.GYPSY NAMES AND FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS. — CHARACTERISTICS. [307b] — MASCULINE NAMES. — FEMININE NAMES.
11. 11.GYPSY STORIES IN ROMANY, WITH TRANSLATION. — MERLINOS TE TRINALI. — MERLIN AND TRINALI. — O PŪV-SŪVER. — THE SPIDER. — GORGIO, KALO-MANUSH, TE ROM. — GORGIO, [319a] BLACK MAN, AND GYPSY. — YAG-BAR TE SASTER. SĀ O KAM SOS ANKERDO. — FLINT AND STEEL. OR HOW THE SUN WAS CREATED. — O MANŪSH KON JIVDAS ADRÉ O CHONE (SHONE). — THE MAN WHO LIVED IN THE MOON. — ROMANY TACHIPEN. — GYPSY TRUTH. — CHOVIHANIPEN. — WITCHCRAFT. [327]
12. 12.THE ORIGIN OF THE GYPSIES. — THE SUN AND THE MOON.
13. 13.A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL.
14. 14.SHELTA, THE TINKERS’ TALK.
15. 15.Footnotes:

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