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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... wander. When they will be los, or whether at all again, is not without some doubt; for unsettled nations have out-lased others of fixed habitations. And though Gypsies have been banished by mos Chrisian Princes, yet have they found some ...
... wander. When they will be los, or whether at all again, is not without some doubt; for unsettled nations have out-lased others of fixed habitations. And though Gypsies have been banished by mos Chrisian Princes, yet have they found some ...
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... wanders up and downe Heaven, like an Anticke, so these changeablesuffe-companions never tary one day in a place, but are the only base Ronnagats upon earth. And as in the Moone there is a man, that never sirres without a bush of thornes ...
... wanders up and downe Heaven, like an Anticke, so these changeablesuffe-companions never tary one day in a place, but are the only base Ronnagats upon earth. And as in the Moone there is a man, that never sirres without a bush of thornes ...
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... wandering much, Need other physic none to heal the effecs Of loathsome diet, penury, and cold. The. Black. Zigan. FOR the root that's unclean, hope if you can; No washing e'er whitens the black Zigan: The tree that's bitter by birth and ...
... wandering much, Need other physic none to heal the effecs Of loathsome diet, penury, and cold. The. Black. Zigan. FOR the root that's unclean, hope if you can; No washing e'er whitens the black Zigan: The tree that's bitter by birth and ...
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... wandering weasel,' and the rusle of the bushes, as some sartled wood-creature plunges into deeper coverts; or perchance the faint sounds from a sequesered hamlet reach his ears, or the sill more remote hum of a great city. Cradled from ...
... wandering weasel,' and the rusle of the bushes, as some sartled wood-creature plunges into deeper coverts; or perchance the faint sounds from a sequesered hamlet reach his ears, or the sill more remote hum of a great city. Cradled from ...
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... wandering, the heath with the breeze brisk upon it, whispering bough, bramble-berried hedgerows, dapple of shadowy leaves on the floor of the silent lane; partridge eggs in the furze clump beside the by-way; the snare, the sealthy shot ...
... wandering, the heath with the breeze brisk upon it, whispering bough, bramble-berried hedgerows, dapple of shadowy leaves on the floor of the silent lane; partridge eggs in the furze clump beside the by-way; the snare, the sealthy shot ...
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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