The Gypsy Fortune Teller And The Sucker
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The Gypsy Fortune Teller And The Sucker
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Author : Frank Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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The Complete Gypsy Fortune Teller
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Author : Kevin Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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The Gipsy Fortune Teller
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Author : W. Parker
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-04
The Gipsy Fortune Teller written by W. Parker and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-04 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Gipsy Fortune Teller" (Containing: Judgment for the 29 Days of the Moon, the Signification of Moles, and the Art of Telling Fortunes by Dice, Dominoes, &c., &c) by W. Parker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Gypsy Sorcery And Fortune Telling
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Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1962
Gypsy Sorcery And Fortune Telling written by Charles Godfrey Leland and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Fortune-telling categories.
It is no great problem ill ethnology or anthropology as to how gypsies became fortune-tellers. We may find a very curious illustration of it in the wren. This is apparently as humble, modest, prosaic little fowl as exists, and as far from mystery and wickedness as an old hen. But the ornithologists of the olden time, and the myth-makers, and the gypsies who lurked and lived in the forest, knew better. They saw how this bright-eyed, strange little creature in her elvish way slipped in and out of hollow trees and wood shade into sunlight, and anon was gone, no man knew whither, and so they knew that it was an uncanny creature, and told wonderful tales of its deeds in human form, and to-day it is called by gypsies in Germany, as in England, the witch-bird, or more briefly, chorihani, "the witch." Just so the gypsies themselves, with their glittering Indian eyes, slipping like the wren in and out of the shadow of the Unknown, and anon away and invisible, won for themselves the name which now they wear. Wherever Shamanism, or the sorcery which is based on exorcising or commanding spirits, exists, its professors from leading strange lives, or from solitude or wandering, become strange and wild-looking. When men have this appearance people associate with it mysterious power. This is the case in Tartary, Africa, among the Eskimo, Lapps, or Red Indians, with all of whom the sorcerer, voodoo or medaolin, has the eye of the "fascinator," glittering and cold as that of a serpent. So the gypsies, from the mere fact of being wanderers and out-of-doors livers in wild places, became wild-looking, and when asked if they did not associate with the devils who dwell in the desert places, admitted the soft impeachment, and being further questioned as to whether their friends the devils, fairies, elves, and goblins had not taught them how to tell the future, they pleaded guilty, and finding that it paid well, went to work in their small way to improve their "science," and particularly their pecuniary resources. It was an easy calling; it required no property or properties, neither capital nor capitol, shiners nor shrines, wherein to work the oracle. And as I believe that a company of children left entirely to themselves would form and grow up with a language which in a very few years would be spoken fluently,1 so I am certain that the shades of night, and fear, pain, and lightning and mystery would produce in the same time conceptions of dreaded beings, resulting first in demonology and then in the fancied art of driving devils away. For out of my own childish experiences and memories I retain with absolute accuracy material enough to declare that without any aid from other people the youthful mind forms for itself strange and seemingly supernatural phenomena. A tree or bush waving in the night breeze by moonlight is perhaps mistaken for a great man, the mere repetition of the sight or of its memory make it a personal reality. Once when I was a child powerful doses of quinine caused a peculiar throb in my ear which I for some time believed was the sound of somebody continually walking upstairs. Very young children sometimes imagine invisible playmates or companions talk with them, and actually believe that the unseen talk to them in return. I myself knew a small boy who had, as he sincerely believed, such a companion, whom he called Bill, and when he could not understand his lessons he consulted the mysterious William, who explained them to him. There are children who, by the voluntary or involuntary exercise of visual perception or volitional eye-memory,2 reproduce or create images which they imagine to be real, and this faculty is much commoner than is supposed. In fact I believe that where it exists in most remarkable degrees the adults to whom the children describe their visions dismiss them as "fancies" or falsehoods. Even in the very extraordinary cases recorded by Professor HALE, in which little children formed for themselves spontaneously a language in which they conversed fluently, neither their parents nor anybody else appears to have taken the least interest in the matter. However, the fact being that babes can form for themselves supernatural conceptions and embryo mythologies, and as they always do attribute to strange or terrible-looking persons power which the latter do not possess, it is easy, without going further, to understand why a wild Indian gypsy, with eyes like a demon when excited, and unearthly-looking at his calmest, should have been supposed to be a sorcerer by credulous child-like villagers. All of this I believe might have taken place, or really did take place, in the very dawn of man's existence as a rational creature—that as soon as "the frontal convolution of the brain which monkeys do not possess," had begun with the "genial tubercule," essential to language, to develop itself, then also certain other convolutions and tubercules, not as yet discovered, but which ad interim I will call "the ghost-making," began to act. "Genial," they certainly were not—little joy and much sorrow has man got out of his spectro-facient apparatus—perhaf it and talk are correlative he might as well, many a time, have been better off if he were dumb.
A Fool Disclosure
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language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date :
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Journal Of The Gypsy Lore Society
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Journal Of The Gypsy Lore Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Electronic journals categories.
Gypsy Rickwood S Fortune Telling Book
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Author : Rickwood (Gypsy.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
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Gypsies And Travelers In North America
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Author : William G. Lockwood
language : en
Publisher: Cheverly, Md. : Gypsy Lore Society
Release Date : 1994
Gypsies And Travelers In North America written by William G. Lockwood and has been published by Cheverly, Md. : Gypsy Lore Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Reference categories.
Fleecing Grandma And Grandpa
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Author : Betty L. Alt
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-09-30
Fleecing Grandma And Grandpa written by Betty L. Alt and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Law categories.
Falling for a scam or con is humiliating for anyone, and can have terrible consequences. But for the elderly, being the victim of fraud can be disastrous, and they are the most common and vulnerable targets of everyday scams, cons, and frauds. From identity theft to gambling scams, from power of attorney issues to pyramid schemes, there is no dearth of creativity in the ways some criminals will relieve the elderly from their money and their homes. Here, Alt and Wells describe the most common scams, offer the stories of actual victims, and detail ways to protect yourself and your family from becoming easy targets. What makes the elderly such easy marks for con artists? How can they avoid the common traps? Knowing about them is one place to start, and this book helps readers to understand and identify the most common scams perpetrated against the elderly. Because such cons are so hard to prosecute, it is important to know the methods criminals employ to separate innocents from their hard-earned money. This lively, vivid account of one of the most insidious forms of crime will help families and individuals protect themselves and their loved ones from the machinations of those who view them as easy marks.
The Gypsy Fortune Telling Scam
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Author : Nelson H. White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Gypsy Fortune Telling Scam written by Nelson H. White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with California categories.