Romany Life

Romany Life - Experienced and Observed during many Years of Friendly Intercourse with the Gypsies

IT is a curious fact, that while very few can be found nowadays to accept without question, fanciful or otherwise, unscientific statements concerning natural objects or supernatural happenings, many time-worn, misleading accounts of gypsies and what they are supposed to dobut do notare still implicitly credited by a great majority of thinking people. A solution of this may be looked for in one or other of the following surmises, perhapsmore or lessin all: Hearsay, in matters concerning the gypsies, even when emanating from presumably reliable sources, cannot altogether be relied upon. Unless one lives among them and as one of them, goes freely to and fro, sees and hears for himself, understanding the while most of what may be said in Romany, slang and English,a lingual conglomerate heard nowhere but among these people,his accounts will be of little value in depicting aspects of Romany life. Just how much truth, if any, there may be in the invariable assertion by gypsies, that I have a good deal of the true Romany in my composition, I am unable to say; there can, however, be no doubt whatever of their belief in it, nor that their tenacity on the point, coupled with my adaptability to their manner of life, and my use of their tongue (which I cannot butix admit seems to me a language I might have used in a previous existence), have proved a veritable open sesame, admitting me to the innermost circle of friendship, and enabling me, while not breaking faith with them, to describe truthfully, customs and aspects of their life which do not come within the ken of the gorgio or non-gypsy. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50639
Author: Cuttriss, Frank
Release Date: Dec 8, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English