Introduction. Gypsy Folk Tales
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"Gypsy Folk Tales", by Francis Hindes Groome, [1899],
Gypsy Folk-tales.
Given then this wandering race, from time immemorial established in Europe, but emigrants originally from India: the interest of their folk-tales, if folk-tales indeed they have, will surely at once be apparent to every student of Indo-European folklore. Yet folklorists as a body seem strangely ignorant of the existence of Rmani folk-tales, of the fact that not a few Gypsies are even professional story-tellers.
"Gypsy Folk Tales", by Francis Hindes Groome, [1899],
Gypsy Folk-tales.
Given then this wandering race, from time immemorial established in Europe, but emigrants originally from India: the interest of their folk-tales, if folk-tales indeed they have, will surely at once be apparent to every student of Indo-European folklore. Yet folklorists as a body seem strangely ignorant of the existence of Rmani folk-tales, of the fact that not a few Gypsies are even professional story-tellers.
