Gypsy Demons and Divinities
Author : Elwood B. Trigg
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Gypsies
ISBN : 9780806503790
Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic
Author : Raymond Buckland
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1609251652
Book Description
Weaving together lore, legend, and belief Buckland’s Book of Gypsy Magic revives the beliefs, spell-craft, and healing wisdom of the Romany people. From hexes and healings to tea leaves and tarot, the circle of the family and the rituals of death, this enchanted volume will delight witches, folklorists, and history lovers alike. Learn the shuvani’s secrets for love, craft a talisman for vitality, and cast the Gypsy Start tarot spread. Join Buckland around the campfire, to hear stories of werewolves and vampires, mistaken identity, persecution, and perseverance. Learn how the gypsy people have for centuries used wisdom and enchantments to ensure good health, happy families, and heart’s desire. Includes a glossary of Romany words.
Gypsy-Travellers in Nineteenth-Century Society
Author : David Mayall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 1988-02-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521323970
Book Description
This book critically examines the nature and source of Gypsy stereotypes.
The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies)
Author : Donald Kenrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,64 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Romanies
ISBN : 0810875616
Book Description
Originating in India, the Gypsies arrived in Europe around the 14th century, spreading not only across the entirety of the continent but also immigrating to the Americas. The first Gypsy migration included farmworkers, blacksmiths, and mercenary soldiers, as well as musicians, fortune-tellers, and entertainers. At first, they were generally welcome as an interesting diversion to the dull routine of that period. Soon, however, they attracted the antagonism of the governing powers, as they have continually done throughout the following centuries. The A to Z of the Gypsies (Romanies) seeks to end such prejudice by clarifying the facts about this nomadic people. Through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics, the history of the Gypsies and their culture is told.
Gypsy Identities 1500-2000
Author : David Mayall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135357439
Book Description
Gypsies have lived in England since the early sixteenth century, yet considerable confusion and disagreement remain over the precise identity of the group. The question 'Who are the Gypsies?' is still asked and the debates about the positioning and permanence of the boundary between Gypsy and non-Gypsy are contested as fiercely today as at any time before. This study locates these debates in their historical perspective, tracing the origins and reproduction of the various ways of defining and representing the Gypsy from the early sixteenth century to the present day. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century. The book closes with an exploration of the long-lasting image of the group as vagrant and parasitic nuisances which spans the whole period from 1500 to 2000.
Gypsy Politics and Traveller Identity
Author : Thomas Alan Acton
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780900458750
Book Description
Relations with the state and with non-Gypsies have been central to the shaping of the lived identity of Gypsy people. This book examines how the state deals with Gypsies and travellers, and how they deal with the state. It also provides a comparative study of Gypsy politics in Britain and abroad.
The Divine and the Demonic
Author : Dr Graham Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1134431104
Book Description
Focuses on supernatural affliction - illness and misfortune ascribed to demonic spirits or ghosts and to other mystical agents, such as sorcerers and witches.
The Vampire Book
Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1578593506
Book Description
The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
Scottish Fairy Belief
Author : Lizanne Henderson
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2007-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1788854330
Book Description
The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of God. While fairy belief was only a fragment of a much larger complex, the implications of studying this belief tradition are potentially vast, revealing some understanding of the worldview of the people of past centuries. This book, the first modern study of the subject, examines the history and nature of fairy belief, the major themes and motifs, the demonising attack upon the tradition, and the attempted reinstatement of the reality of fairies at the end of the seventeenth century, as well as their place in ballads and in Scottish literature.
Extraordinary Groups
Author : William W. Zellner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781572599536
Book Description
Text covering different groups in today's society like Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish, Gypsies, Mormons, etc. New chapter on Unitarian Universalists.
