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 cache: 16358.txt plain text: 16358.txt 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 cache: 19852.txt plain text: 19852.txt 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 cache: 22939.txt plain text: 22939.txt 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 cache: 39665.txt plain text: 39665.txt 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 cache: 58465.txt plain text: 58465.txt