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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Illustrated by Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

By Leland Charles Godfrey.

Book information

Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2921441 bytes)
Pages
\147
Topic
Religion
Library
twirpx
Time added
2017-08-07 07:01:42
Религиоведение;Эзотериология

Description

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891. — 147 р.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 and instances, taken either from works as yet very little known to the English reader or from personal experiences. Within a very few years, since Ethnology and Archæology have received a great inspiration, and much enlarged their scope through Folk-lore, everything relating to such subjects is studied with far greater interest and to much greater profit than was the case when they were cultivated in a languid, half-believing, half-sceptical spirit which was in reality rather one of mere romance than reason.

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