The Wind on the Heath - A Gypsy Anthology (Romany History Series)John Sampson This magnificent Gypsy anthology was first published in London 1930. It contains over 300 items of prose and verse gleaned from classical literature, folklore, history and true Gypsy life. It has long been considered unique in its field and is very hard to find in its first edition. We have now re-published this scarce book incorporating the original text and illustrations. The book's 380 pages are divided into 12 sections designed to bring to light the chief facets of Gypsy life. They have been chosen for their historical and anthropological interest and are supported with illustrations of the real Gypsy way of life, and yet the same wind blows over all on this Gypsy heath. Contents include: The Dark Race. - The Roaming Life. - Field and Sky. - Gypsies and Gentiles. - The Romany Chye. - Gypsy Children. - Sturt and Strife. - Black Arts. - A Gypsy Bestiary. - Egipte Speche. - Scholar Gypsies. - Envoy. Also included is a glossary of Romani words. This important book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in Gypsy ways. |
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... hear them, in low, silver tones, dealing forth magnificent promises, of honours and esates, of world's worth, and ladies' love. Their mode of life, too, has something in it very fanciful and picuresque. They are the free denizens of ...
... hear them, in low, silver tones, dealing forth magnificent promises, of honours and esates, of world's worth, and ladies' love. Their mode of life, too, has something in it very fanciful and picuresque. They are the free denizens of ...
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... hears the disant bark of the prowling fox and the melancholy hootings of the wood-owls; he marks the shriek of the 'night-wandering weasel,' and the rusle of the bushes, as some sartled wood-creature plunges into deeper coverts; or ...
... hears the disant bark of the prowling fox and the melancholy hootings of the wood-owls; he marks the shriek of the 'night-wandering weasel,' and the rusle of the bushes, as some sartled wood-creature plunges into deeper coverts; or ...
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... hear When the thrush cock sings Bright irrelevant things, And when the chanticleer Calls back to their own night Troops that make loneliness With their light footseps' press, As Helen's own are light. Now all roads lead to France And ...
... hear When the thrush cock sings Bright irrelevant things, And when the chanticleer Calls back to their own night Troops that make loneliness With their light footseps' press, As Helen's own are light. Now all roads lead to France And ...
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... hear them say:— 'Who is that, father?' 'I do not know. Did you see anything?' 'No. I heard something. And what I heard went like a cow.' 'Go up the road and see what it is.' 'I went jus now. I saw and I heard nothing. It is the devil ...
... hear them say:— 'Who is that, father?' 'I do not know. Did you see anything?' 'No. I heard something. And what I heard went like a cow.' 'Go up the road and see what it is.' 'I went jus now. I saw and I heard nothing. It is the devil ...
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... hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad, to think she mus descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch, but for ...
... hear her, she then quits the earth, and sings as she ascends higher into the air, and having ended her heavenly employment, grows then mute and sad, to think she mus descend to the dull earth, which she would not touch, but for ...
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Common terms and phrases
almos Arthur Symons Aunt Rodi beautiful bebee behold birds brother camp chap Charles Godfrey Leland child cuckoo dance dark disant donkey earth Egyptian English Gypsies eyes face father fire firs fortune Francis Hindes Groome gentleman George Borrow George Meredith Gilderoy Gipsy Gipsy’s girl gorgios grass GYPSY LADDIE Gypsy Song hair hand hath heard Hedgehog horse Jasper John John Bunyan King lady language Lavengro Leland lisen live looked Lord man’s maser mother mysery never night o’er Petulengro Poems poor quesion race road Romany Rye round sars siés sill sing siser sleep sood sory srange sranger sream sweet tell tent thee Theodore Watts-Dunton there’s things thou art thought tree undersand unto Ursula vagabond W. H. Hudson wander wild William Hazlitt William Wordsworth wind woman wood words Wordsworth young