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Author : Konrad Bercovici
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gypsies, Their Life, Lore, and Legends written by Konrad Bercovici and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claude Lecouteux
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620556685
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Gypsy Mythology written by Claude Lecouteux and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive A-to-Z reconstruction of the oral tradition of the Rom--gypsies--based on sources never before available in English • Presents the origin myths and magical traditions of the gypsies, including their legendary ties to Egypt, animal ancestors, and tree spirits • Examines the three major settings of gypsy folktales--the forest, the waters, and the mountain--and shows how their world is full of spirits • Shows how the religious concepts of the Rom testify to a profound syncretism of the pagan traditions and Christianity Although their own myths and their common name point to Egyptian origins for the gypsies, the Rom, as they call themselves, originated in India, as evidenced by studies of their language. They arrived in Europe in the ninth century and spread across the continent from East to West, reaching England in the 15th century and Scandinavia by the end of the 16th century. A nomadic people, these wanderers were reviled by local populaces wherever they went and regarded as misfits, intruders, foreigners, and thieves. Drawing on a number of sources never before available outside of Eastern Europe, Claude Lecouteux reconstructs the gypsy oral tradition to provide a comprehensive A-to-Z look at gypsy mythology, including their folktales, rites, songs, nursery rhymes, jokes, and magical traditions. His main source is material collected by Heinrich Adalbert von Wlislocki (1856-1907), an ethnologist who lived with gypsies in Romania, Transylvania, and Hungary in the latter half of the 19th century. He presents the origin myths of the gypsies, legends which form the ancestral memory of the gypsy tribes and often closely touch on their daily life. Lecouteux explores the full range of supernatural beings that inhabit the gypsy world, including fairies, undines, ogres, giants, dog-people, and demons, and he examines the three major settings of gypsy folktales--the forest, the waters, and the mountain, which they worshiped as a sacred being in its own right. He also reveals how coexisting with peoples of different religions led the gypsies to adapt or borrow stories and figures from these groups, and he shows how the religious concepts and sacred stories of the Rom testify to a profound syncretism of pagan traditions and Christianity. Complete with rare illustrations and information from obscure sources appearing for the first time in English, this detailed reference work represents an excellent resource for scholars and those seeking to reconnect to their forgotten gypsy heritage.
Author : Harry E. Wedeck
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504022742
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Gypsy Life and Lore written by Harry E. Wedeck and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the centuries, Gypsies all over the world have been misunderstood, maligned, rejected. Outcasts of the countries in which they live, they have wandered for centuries over the face of the earth. They have no homeland, no political unity, no recognition among nations. They have been alone, sundered, shunned, persecuted and banished. Until about a century ago, their original home had been a matter of dispute. Their language had been a source of puzzlement. Yet their conduct and their traditions, their feeling for music, dance and song, have all been acclaimed. Still they were not accepted and were forced to remain apart from conventional society. Here is their epic history, with its folktales and beliefs, its rites and customs. Here is the vast treasury of the Gypsies.
Author : Konrad Bercovici
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787208818
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)
Download or read book The Story of the Gypsies written by Konrad Bercovici and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, first published in 1928, Romanian-born American author Konrad Bercovici has written a sympathetic, thorough, and fascinating account of an extra-ordinary people. Long an admirer of the Gypsies, he was determined to penetrate their mysteries. He listened to their legends, traced their history, and here presents all that he knows and could learn from others about their origins, customs and lives down through the centuries and throughout the world.
Author : Thomas Alan Acton
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9780900458767
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity written by Thomas Alan Acton and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romany culture is perhaps the most Indo-European of all. The ancestors of the Gypsies left India around 1000 years ago and mixed with every culture on the way to produce a variety of Romany dialects and well-known cultural achievements from Hungarian Gypsy music to the English Gypsy caravan. Such images somehow co-exist, however, with continuous persecution.
Author : Robert Andrew Scott Macfie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gypsy Lore written by Robert Andrew Scott Macfie and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Crowe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137105968
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)
Download or read book A History of The Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia written by D. Crowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated edition with a new foreword by Andre Liebich, David M. Crowe provides an overview of the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages up until the present, drawing from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources.
Author : Martin Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Gypsies written by Martin Block and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monique Joiner Siedlak
Publisher : Oshun Publications, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1948834928
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Gypsy Magic written by Monique Joiner Siedlak and published by Oshun Publications, LLC. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you often wondered why gypsies are surrounded by magic? Does their aura impress you and make you keen to learn more about their customs? This book provides an insight like never before! Gypsies have been around for centuries and their way of life has changed little through the years, traveling from place to place, telling fortunes and selling wares to make ends meet. Their lifestyle has a certain romance to it and is they are believed to possess many extraordinary powers. In this book, Gypsy Magic, you can learn much more about gypsies, their way of life and the magic and customs they practice, with chapters that explore: Roma History Roma Customs and Religion Gypsy Lore Tips for Successful Magic The Power of Wishing and Spells Magic of the Planets Divination Simple Spells And more… If the gypsy way of life and the magic they practice has long held a fascination for you then this book will pave the way to a greater understanding of their culture and the mysticism that surrounds it. Get a copy of Gypsy Magic today and find out more about their incredible talents!
Author : Lenny Harvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Romany Gypsies written by Lenny Harvey and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romany Gypsy True stories, Bittersweet and sometimes funny, from my childhood.1943 to 1959. Family History: Lords, Ladies, and Gypsies going back over 700 hundred years.These are true Romany Gypsy stories from my childhood as I remember them, with a little bit of the author's artistic licence to make them more enjoyable.If you are looking for stories that romanticise a Romany Gypsy life on the open road, then this book is probably not for you. However if you are interested in the true life of Romany Gypsy's, you may find this book interesting.Not all Romany Gypsies lived in wagons but more often houses, preferring a permanent base where they couldn't be told to move on, but still travelling and living the gypsy life in their horse-drawn vardo wagons, carrying on the Romany traditions of flower and rag rug making, duckering (fortune-telling), and hawking (selling) flowers and firewood logs from a horse-drawn cart, as me and mum did, travelling back and forth from the gypsy Camp on Belverdere Marshes the hop picking and fruit farms.Many kept their carts and horses in their backyards as we did. Some had vardos (horse-drawn wagons) and houses, as did my grandad's sister, Ocean. Family History: Lords, Ladies, and Gypsies going back to over 700 hundred years.We are related to Princess Di and her boys, for me and I suppose you [Lenny Harvey] are the same generation as me. I think that makes her our fifteenth cousin once-removed (that means fifteen generations back, we shared a grandad).Winston Churchill is also our thirteenth cousin three times removed.The removed bit means they are not of the same generation as us. Diana is actually of my mum's generation, and Winston is the same generation as my great grandad. Sarah Ferguson and her daughters are also our cousins. We share a great granddad back in the 1400s called Richard Yate. I met HRH Prince of Wales in 1996 in Crimea, Ukraine. At the time, I was not aware that he was family. He never mentioned it either. Sadly none of the family were invited to either Diana or Sarah's wedding. Probably with all our travelling about they lost our address.
Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Gypsies written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gypsy and Folk-Lore Club. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Gypsy-lore and Books Containing Matter Relevant to Gypsies written by Gypsy and Folk-Lore Club. Library and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gypsy Lore Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by Gypsy Lore Society and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Tong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135636303
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Gypsies written by Diane Tong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.
Author : M. Eileen Lyster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Gypsy Life of Betsy Wood written by M. Eileen Lyster and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The Gypsy Life of Betsy Wood' gives a faithful and beautiful picture of Welsh Gypsy life which will appeal to the Gypsy-lore enthusiast, as a real contribution to knowledge in a little explored field, and to the general reader for its fine human story. Betsy Wood, who herself told the authoress of the incidents here described, came of an aristocratic Gypsy clan speaking that pure dialect of Romani which the Gypsies of the principality have retained along with those of Greece and Turkey." --Dust jacket.
Author : Francis Hindes Groome
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Gypsy Folk-tales written by Francis Hindes Groome and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsy Folk-Tales by Francis Hindes Groome, first published in 1899, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Author : Anne Sutherland
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610417
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Gypsies written by Anne Sutherland and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 1986-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gypsies portrayed in this book are the Vlax-speaking Rom, the largest group of Gypsies in the United States, numbering 500,000. Not officially recognized as a minority in the U.S. until 1972, Gypsies have led an almost entirely invisible existence here. Now in this fascinating workthe first complete account of American GypsiesSutherland has produced an in-depth look at the full range of everyday social life among the Rom. Separate, elusive, complex, and unique among the people of the world, Gypsies have preserved their traditional way of life. How have they avoided assimilation? What keeps them apart? How are they organized, and what do they believe? These and other important questions about these hidden Americans are addressed in Sutherlands contemporary study.
