item: #1 of 5
id: 16358
author: Leland, Charles Godfrey
title: The English Gipsies and Their Language
date: None
words: 66205
flesch: 79
summary: In like manner, _hoggu_ (_hocku_ or _honku_) He got himself into a hopeless tangle in trying to explain the difference between _wafro_ and _naflo_, or ill, until his mind finally refused to act on _vessavo_
keywords: 'em; adree; america; apre; bar; bitti; boro; chal; children; country; day; dead; del; divvus; dovo; drum; duvel; egypt; england; english; english gipsy; fact; father; gentleman; german; gipsies; gipsy; girl; god; good; gorgios; gudlo; half; hindustani; horse; india; jal; jalled; kair; kek; ker; kushto; language; lel; life; mandy; meaning; means; men; money; mush; mushis; origin; panni; pash; pauli; people; poor; pre; reader; real; road; rommany; rye; sar; saw; secret; sir; slang; speak; story; tem; tent; term; thing; time; translation; tute; waver; way; wife; woman; word; years; yeck
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item: #2 of 5
id: 19852
author: Crabb, James
title: The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies
date: None
words: 39430
flesch: 72
summary: And many other Gipsies have been so afraid of God, that they dreaded to be alone. On one occasion, he and many other Gipsies, entered the parlour of a small public house on the borders of Hants, when emptying the contents of a dirty purse into an half-pint cup, he nearly filled it with sovereigns; and declared, they would not leave the house, till they had spent it all.
keywords: account; author; book; camp; children; day; days; family; following; fortune; friends; gipsies; gipsy; god; good; habits; house; instruction; life; money; mother; people; place; present; read; sir; southampton; tent; time; way; woman; work; years
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item: #3 of 5
id: 22939
author: Leland, Charles Godfrey
title: The Gypsies
date: None
words: 102302
flesch: 80
summary: But kek _kairescro_ kanis. The second part is the conveying away of the property, which is to _lel dudikabin_, or to take lightning, possibly connected with the very old English slang term of _bien lightment_.
keywords: adre; america; apre; art; beauty; black; blood; book; boro; boy; brown; business; buti; charm; children; class; cold; come; common; country; dark; day; days; deep; dum; earth; england; english; europe; eyes; face; fact; fair; find; fine; fire; fortune; friend; gentleman; german; girl; good; green; gypsies; gypsy; hair; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; human; india; kind; kushto; ladies; lady; language; life; living; london; look; lord; love; manner; means; men; miri; money; moon; moscow; mother; music; mystery; nature; new; night; origin; pen; people; place; poor; present; race; real; red; river; road; romanes; romany; room; round; russian; rye; sar; sea; set; singing; sir; sister; song; sos; soul; speak; story; street; sun; sweet; talk; tell; tent; thing; thought; time; tinker; tongue; town; tute; want; water; way; ways; white; wife; wild; witch; woman; word; work; years; yoi; young; yuv
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item: #4 of 5
id: 39665
author: Simson, Walter
title: A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language
date: None
words: 248587
flesch: 66
summary: She gave me, on the spot, the English of the following words; adding, at the same time, that I had got the _Gipsy_ language, but that hers was only the _English cant_. He will not admit that there is a _Gipsy_ in Scotland, or ever has been; and virtually denies that there are Gipsies in England; for he continues:] The nearest approach to the character is the hawkers from the Staffordshire potteries, who are found living in tents by the way-side, throughout the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the five northern counties of England.
keywords: account; america; appearance; author; baillie; band; black; blood; blood gipsies; body; borrow; bunyan; case; character; children; church; circumstances; class; clydesdale gipsies; come; common; company; condition; continental gipsies; country; day; death; descent; egyptians; england; english gipsies; europe; existence; fact; fair; families; family; farmer; father; feeling; female; following; general; gipsies; gipsy; gipsy chief; gipsy family; gipsy language; gipsy race; god; good; habits; half; hand; having; head; history; home; horses; house; idea; individuals; james; jews; john; kind; king; know; language; law; laws; left; life; little; lord; man; manner; matter; means; men; mind; mixed; money; mother; native; nature; near; new; night; number; occasion; old; original; people; person; place; position; prejudice; present; public; question; race; religion; respect; scotland; scottish; set; sir; small; society; spanish; state; subject; tent; thing; time; town; tribe; walter; way; white; wife; william; woman; word gipsy; words; work; world; years; yetholm; young
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item: #5 of 5
id: 58465
author: Leland, Charles Godfrey
title: Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales
date: None
words: 90494
flesch: 72
summary: [9] Civilized people who read about Red Indian sorcerers and gypsy witches very promptly conclude that they are mere humbugs or lunatics--they do not realize how these people, who pass half their lives in wild places watching waving grass and falling waters, and listening to the brook until its cadence speaks in real song, believe in their inspirations, and feel that there is the same mystical feeling and presence in all things that live and move and murmur as well as in themselves. Heathens though they be, many gypsies have a superstitious belief in the efficacy of the sacramental bread and wine, and there are many instances of their stealing them for magical purposes.
keywords: amulet; away; belief; believe; black; blood; case; chapter; charm; child; children; church; country; cross; cure; day; days; dead; death; der; devils; die; disease; dream; earth; east; egg; eggs; england; english; europe; evil; eyes; fact; fairies; fairy; faith; fire; folk; following; form; fortune; garlic; german; girl; god; good; gypsies; gypsy; hair; half; hand; head; hin; holy; house; hungarian; incantations; indian; kind; lady; life; lore; love; luck; magic; man; means; men; mind; moon; mother; mythology; nature; new; night; origin; people; person; place; power; present; reader; red; religion; romany; round; saint; shamanism; shell; sorcery; spells; spirits; story; subject; telling; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; toad; tree; tut; waking; water; white; wife; witchcraft; witches; wlislocki; woman; wood; word; work; years
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