Chapter Xii. Fortune Telling : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 186 CHAPTER XII FORTUNE-TELLING ("continued")--ROMANCE BASED ON CHANCE, OR HOPE, AS REGARDS THE FUTURE-FOLK--AND SORCERY-LORE--AUTHENTIC INSTANCES OF GYPSY PREDICTION "IT would seem to all who now live that life would be...
Chapter I. The Origin Of Witchcraft, Shamanism : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. xiii p. 1 CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF WITCHCRAFT, SHAMANISM, AND SORCERY--VINDICTIVE AND MISCHIEVOUS MAGIC AS their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices, so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies...
Chapter Vii. The Recovery Of Stolen Property : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 108 CHAPTER VII THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY--LOVE-CHARMS--SHOES AND LOVE-POTIONS, OR PHILTRES WHEN a man has lost anything, or been robbed, he often has in his own mind, quite unconsciously, some suspicion or clue...
Chapter Ii. Charms And Conjurations To Cure : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 12 CHAPTER II CHARMS AND CONJURATIONS TO CURE THE DISORDERS OF GROWN PEOPLE HUNGARIAN GYPSY MAGIC "THOUGH not liable to many disorders, the gypsies in Eastern Europe, from their wandering, out-of-doors life, and camping...
Chapter Xiv. A Gypsy Magic Spell The Great Secret : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 209 CHAPTER XIV 1 A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL--HOKKANI BSO--LELLIN DUDIKABIN, OR THE GREAT SECRET--CHILDREN'S RHYMES AND INCANTATIONS--TEN LITTLE INDIAN BOYS AND TEN LITTLE ACORN GIRLS OF MARCELLUS BURDIGALENSIS THERE is...
Chapter Xv. Gypsy Amulets : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 230 CHAPTER XV GYPSY AMULETS "Knew many an amulet and charm Which would do neither good nor harm, In Rosicrucian lore as learned As he that "ver adeptus" earned."--HUDIBRAS. WITH pleasant plausibility HEINE has traced...
Chapter X. Of The Haunts, Homes And Habits : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 152 CHAPTER X OF THE HAUNTS, HOMES, AND HABITS OF WITCHES IN THE SOUTH SLAVIC LANDS--BOGEYS AND HUMBUGS THE witches in Slavonian gypsy-lore have now and then parties which meet to spin, always by full moonlight...
Chapter Viii. Roumanian And Transylvani : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 122 CHAPTER VIII ROUMANIAN AND TRANSYLVANIAN SORCERIES AND SUPERSTITIONS, CONNECTED WITH THOSE OF THE GYPSIES IN her very interesting account of Roumanian superstitions, Mrs. E. GERARD ("The Land Beyond the Forest")...
Title Page : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], GYPSY SORCERY AND FORTUNE TELLING ILLUSTRATED BY INCANTATIONS, SPECIMENS OF MEDICAL MAGIC, ANECDOTES, TALES BY CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Late President Of The Gypsy-Lore Society London: T. Fisher Unwin [1891] Scanned, proofed...
Preface : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. v PREFACE THIS work contains a collection of the customs, usages, and ceremonies current among gypsies, as regards fortune-telling, witch-doctoring, love-philtering, and other sorcery, illustrated by many anecdotes...
Chapter V. Charms Or Conjurations To Cure : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 79 LAPLAND MAGIC DRUM CHAPTER V CHARMS OR CONJURATIONS TO CURE OR PROTECT ANIMALS "FROM the earliest ages a drum or tambourine has formed such an indispensable adjunct of Shamanic sorcery among Tartars, Lapps, Samoyedes...
Chapter Xi. Gypsy Witchcraft Magical Power : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 162 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 WOMEN excel in the manifestation of certain qualities...
Chapter Xvi. Gypsies, Toads And Toad Lore : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 255 CHAPTER XVI GYPSIES, TOADS, AND TOAD-LORE "I went to the toad that lies under the wall, I charmed him out, and he came at my call." Masque, of Queens," BEN JONSON.) "THE toad plays a prominent part in gypsy...
Chapter Ix. The Meetings Of Witches : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 142 CHAPTER IX THE RENDEZVOUS OR MEETINGS OF WITCHES, SORCERERS, AND VILAS--A CONTINUATION OF SOUTH SLAVONIAN GYPSY-LORE "IN Eastern Europe witches and their kin, or kind, assemble on the eve of Saint John and of Saint...
Chapter Iv. South Slavonian And Other Gypsy : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 65 CHAPTER IV SOUTH SLAVONIAN AND OTHER GYPSY WITCH-LORE.--THE WORDS FOR A WITCH--VILAS AND THE SPIRITS OF EARTH AND AIR-WITCHES, EGGSHELLS, AND EGG-LORE-EGG PROVERBS--OVA DE CRUCIBUS THERE is current in the whole...
Chapter Iii. Gypsy Conjurations And Exorcisms : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 41 CHAPTER III GYPSY CONJURATIONS AND EXORCISMS--THE CURE OF CHILDREN-HUNGARIAN GYPSY SPELLS--A CURIOUS OLD ITALIAN "SECRET"--THE MAGIC VIRTUE OF GARLIC--A FLORENTINE INCANTATION LEARNED FROM A WITCH--LILITH...
Chapter Xiii. Proverbs Referring To Witches : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 194 CHAPTER XIII PROVERBS REFERRING TO WITCHES, GYPSIES, AND FAIRIES Of Fairies, Witches, Gypsies, My nourrice sang to me , Sua Gypsies, Fairies, Witches, I alsua synge to thee." ("Denham Tract.") DR. KRAUSS has in his...
Chapter Vi. Of Pregnancy And Charms : * "Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling", by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891], p. 100 CHAPTER VI OF PREGNANCY AND CHARMS, OR FOLK-LORE CONNECTED WITH IT--BOAR'S TEETH AND CHARMS FOR PREVENTING THE FLOW OF BLOOD LIKE all Orientals the gypsy desires intensely to have a family. Superstition comes...
