The Gypsies

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Published in the 1960s, this is an older text, but is expertly researched and comprehensive in its coverage. Since their unexplained appearance in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Gypsies have doggedly refused to conform to the settled life. They have covered the continent and spread to America. Their origin and dispersion, the occupations and traditions, their customs in love and death, and their language, signs, and magic are all investigated here...