The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain

THE Gitános, abject and vile as they have ever been, have nevertheless found admirers in Spain, individuals who have taken pleasure in their phraseology, pronunciation, and way...

Spurious Gypsy Poetry of Andalusia 298 Brijindope.—The Deluge 304 The Pestilence 310 On the Language of the Gitános 313 Robber Language 335 The Term ‘Busno’ 354 Specimens of Gyp...

IN the autumn of the year 1839, I landed at Tarifa, from the coast of Barbary. I arrived in a small felouk laden with hides for Cadiz, to which place I was myself going. We stop...

CHIROMANCY, or the divination of the hand, is, according to the orthodox theory, the determining from certain lines upon the hand the quality of the physical and intellectual po...

ABOUT twelve in the afternoon of the 6th of January 1836, I crossed the bridge of the Guadiana, a boundary river between Portugal and Spain, and entered Badajoz, a strong town i...

WHEN the six hundred thousand men, {122} and the mixed multitude of women and children, went forth from the land of Egypt, the God whom they worshipped, the only true God, went...

PERHAPS there is no country in which more laws have been framed, having in view the extinction and suppression of the Gypsy name, race, and manner of life, than Spain. Every mon...

WHILST their husbands are engaged in their jockey vocation, or in wielding the cachas, the Callees, or Gypsy females, are seldom idle, but are endeavouring, by various means, to...

ALREADY, from the two preceding chapters, it will have been perceived that the condition of the Gitános in Spain has been subjected of late to considerable modification. The wor...

THERE is no portion of the world so little known as Africa in general; and perhaps of all Africa there is no corner with which Europeans are so little acquainted as Barbary, whi...

It would appear that, for many years after their arrival in the Peninsula, their manners and habits underwent no change; they were wanderers, in the strictest sense of the word,...

IN Madrid the Gitános chiefly reside in the neighbourhood of the ‘mercado,’ or the place where horses and other animals are sold,—in two narrow and dirty lanes, called the Calle...

‘The people of God were always afflicted by the Egyptians, but the Supreme King delivered them from their hands by means of many miracles, which are related in the Holy Scriptur...

WHILST in Spain I devoted as much time as I could spare from my grand object, which was to circulate the Gospel through that benighted country, to attempt to enlighten the minds...

THE Gitános not unfrequently made their appearance in considerable numbers, so as to be able to bid defiance to any force which could be assembled against them on a sudden; whol...

‘LOS Gitános son muy malos!—the Gypsies are very bad people,’ said the Spaniards of old times. They are cheats; they are highwaymen; they practise sorcery; and, lest the catalog...

THERE is no nation in the world, however exalted or however degraded, but is in possession of some peculiar poetry. If the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Greeks, and the Persians, th...

THE Gitános, in their habits and manner of life, are much less cleanly than the Spaniards. The hovels in which they reside exhibit none of the neatness which is observable in th...

IT is impossible to dismiss the subject of the Spanish Gypsies without offering some remarks on their marriage festivals. There is nothing which they retain connected with their...

CARLOS TERCERO, or Charles the Third, ascended the throne of Spain in the year 1759, and died in 1788. No Spanish monarch has left behind a more favourable impression on the min...

IN the Gitáno language, casting the evil eye is called _Querelar nasula_, which simply means making sick, and which, according to the common superstition, is accomplished by cas...

GITÁNOS, or Egyptians, is the name by which the Gypsies have been most generally known in Spain, in the ancient as well as in the modern period, but various other names have bee...

THE Moors, after their subjugation, and previous to their expulsion from Spain, generally resided apart, principally in the suburbs of the towns, where they kept each other in c...

General Remarks on the Present State of the 207 Gitános—Inefficiency of the Old Laws—Prospects of the Gitános—Partial Reformation—Decline of the Gypsy Sect—Fair of Leon—Love of...

Exodus of the Jews: that of the Gypsies—Indifference of the 122 Gitános with respect to Religion—Ezekiel—Tale of Egyptian Descent—Quiñones—Melchior of Guelama—Religious Toleranc...

Various Laws issued against the Spanish Gypsies, from the 151 time of Ferdinand and Isabella to the latter part of the Eighteenth Century, embracing a period of nearly Three Hun...