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 264
. In itgypsies, witches, and heretics were confined—it was the hotel speciallyreserved for them when they visited Homburg, and in its cells whichare of the smallest between walls of the thickest, I or you, reader,might be confined to-day, but for one Martin Luther and certainlaws of evolution or… … say they are all summed up in the following ballad from the Germanof Heine :— The Witch. Folks said when my granny Eliza bewitched,She must die for her horrid transgression ;Much ink from his pen the old magistrate pitched,But he could not extort a confession. And when in the kettle my granny was…
Magic, Romani · Romanies
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