The English Gipsies and Their Language

Difficulty of obtaining Information.--The Khedive on the Gipsies.--Mr Edward Elias.--Mahomet introduces me to the Gipsies.--They call themselves Tataren.--The Rhagarin or Gipsie...

Gipsies and Cats.--"Christians."--Christians not "Hanimals."--Green, Red, and Yellow.--The Evil Eye.--Models and Morals.--Punji and Sponge-cake.--Troubles with a Gipsy Teacher.-...

Boro Duvel, or "Great God," an Old Gipsy term for Water--Bishnoo or Vishnu, the Rain-God--The Rain, called God's Blood by Gipsies--The Snow, "Angel's Feathers."--Mahadeva--Buddh...

Jockey.--Tool.--Cove or Covey.--Hook, Hookey, and Walker, Hocus, Hanky- Panky, and Hocus-Pocus.--Shindy.--Row.--Chivvy.--Bunged Eye.--Shavers.-- Clichy.--Caliban.--A Rum 'un.--P...

The Rommany of the Roads.--The Secret of Vagabond Life in England.--Its peculiar and thoroughly hidden Nature.--Gipsy Character and the Causes which formed it.--Moral Results of...

Gipsies and Comteists identical as to "Religion"--Singular Manner of Mourning for the Dead, as practised by Gipsies--Illustrations from Life--Gipsy Job and the Cigars--Oaths by...

I shall give in this chapter a few curious illustrations of Gipsy life and character, as shown in a letter, which is illustrated by two specimens in the German Rommany dialect.

The Old Fortune-Teller and her Brother.--The Patteran, or Gipsies' Road- Mark .--The Christian Cross, named by Continental Gipsies Trushul, after the Trident of Siva.--Curious E...

Difficulty of coming to an Understanding with Gipsies.--The Cabman.--Rommany for French.--"Wanderlust."--Gipsy Politeness.--The Tinker and the Painting.--Secrets of Bat-catching...

Every race has not only its peculiar proverbs, sayings, and catch-words, but also idiomatic phrases which constitute a characteristic chiaroscuro, if not colour. The Gipsies in...