Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling

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Excerpt from Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales As regards the illustrative matter given, i am much indebted to dr. Wlislocki, who has probably had far more intimate personal experience of gypsies than any, other learned man who ever lived, through our mutual friend, Dr. Anthon herrmann, editor of the Ethnologz'rcfie Mittez'lungen, Budapest, who is also himself an accomplished Romany scholar and collector, and who has kindly taken a warm interest in this book, and greatly aided it. To these I may add Dr. Friedrich S. Krauss, of Vienna, whose various works on the superstitions and Folk-lore of the South Slavonians - kindly, presented by him to me - contain a vast mine of material, nearly all that of which he treats being common property between peasants and the Romany, as other sources abundantly indicate. With this there is also much which I collected personally among gypsies and fortune - tellers, and Similar characters, it being true as regards this work and its main object, that there is much cognate or allied information which is quite as valuable as gypsy-lore itself, as all such subjects mutually explain one of the others. Gypsies, as I have said, have done more thanfianyfirace. Or class on the face of the earth to disseminate among the multitude a belief in fortune-telling, magical or sympathetic cures, amulets and such small sorceries as now find a place in Folk-lore. Their women have all pre tended to possess occult power Wistoijgmtimwes, By the exercise of their wits they have actually acquired a Certain art of reading character or even thought, which, however it be allied to deceit, is in a way true in itself, and well worth careful examination. Matthew arnold has dwelt on it with rare Skill in his poem of The Gypsy Scholar. Even deceit and imposture never held its own as a system for ages without some ground-work of truth, and that which upheld the Structure of gypsy sorcery, has never been very carefully examined. I trust that I have done this in a rational and philosophic Spirit, and have also illustrated my remarks in a manner which will prove attractive to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.