Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling, illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes, and tales (1891)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 180
s word Bogey. Bug-a-boois suggestive of the Slavonian Bog and Buh, both meaning God or aspirit. Boo or bo is a hobgoblin in Yorkshire, so called because it is saidto be the first word which a ghost or one of his kind utters to a humanbeing, to frighten him. Hence, he cannot say bo to a goose.… … CHAPTER XI. GYPSY WITCHCRAFT. THE MAGICAL POWER WHICH IS INNATE IN ALL MEN AND WOMEN—HOW IT MAY BE CULTIVATED AND DEVELOPED THE PRINCIPLES OF FORTUNE-TELLING. OMEN excel in themanifestation of certainqualities which are as-sociated with mysteryand suggestive of occultinfluences or power.Perhaps the…
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