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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling / Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales — Charles Godfrey Leland

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling / Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales

Charles Godfrey Leland

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 281 pages

This collection of essays by Charles Godfrey Leland explores Gypsy sorcery, fortune-telling, and magical practices, including charms and incantations. Leland draws on folklore and anecdotes to describe traditional beliefs. It provides a window into cultural history and folk magic.

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GYPSY SORCERY AND FORTUNE-TELLING
Original frontispiece.
Original Title Page.
GYPSY SORCERY
AND

FORTUNE TELLING
ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS INCANTATIONS,
SPECIMENS OF MEDICAL MAGIC, ANECDOTES
AND TALES
BY
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND
PRESIDENT OF THE GIPSY-LORE SOCIETY,
&c., &c.
COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
MDCCCXCI

Dedication.

THIS WORK

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MY COLLEAGUES OF THE

CONGRÈS DES TRADITIONS POPULAIRES,

HELD AT PARIS, JULY, 1889;

AND ESPECIALLY

TO THE FRENCH MEMBERS OF THAT BODY,

IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR GENEROUS HOSPITALITY,

AND UNFAILING KINDNESS AND COURTESY, BY

CHARLES G. LELAND.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

PAGE

I. THE ORIGIN OF WITCHCRAFT, SHAMANISM,

AND SORCERY.—VINDICTIVE AND MISCHIEVOUS

MAGIC

1

II. CHARMS AND CONJURATIONS TO CURE THE

DISORDERS OF GROWN PEOPLE.—HUNGARIAN

GYPSY MAGIC

12

III. GYPSY CONJURATIONS AND EXORCISMS—THE

CURE OF CHILDREN—HUNGARIAN GYPSY SPELLS

—A CURIOUS OLD ITALIAN “SECRET”—THE

MAGIC VIRTUE OF GARLIC—A FLORENTINE

INCANTATION LEARNED FROM A WITCH—

LILITH, THE CHILD-STEALER, AND QUEEN OF

THE WITCHES

41

IV. SOUTH SLAVONIAN AND OTHER GYPSY WITCHLORE.—THE WORDS FOR A WITCH—VILAS AND

THE SPIRITS OF EARTH AND AIR—WITCHES,

EGG-SHELLS, AND EGG-LORE—EGG PROVERBS—

OVA DE CRUCIBUS

65

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Contents

  1. Dedication.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. PREFACE.
  4. CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF WITCHCRAFT, SHAMANISM, AND SORCERY.—VINDICTIVE AND MISCHIEVOUS MAGIC.
  5. CHAPTER II. CHARMS AND CONJURATIONS TO CURE THE DISORDERS OF GROWN PEOPLE. HUNGARIAN GYPSY MAGIC.
  6. CHAPTER III. GYPSY CONJURATIONS AND EXORCISMS—THE CURE OF CHILDREN—HUNGARIAN GYPSY SPELLS—A CURIOUS OLD ITALIAN “SECRET”
  7. CHAPTER IV. SOUTH SLAVONIAN AND OTHER GYPSY WITCH-LORE.—THE WORDS FOR A WITCH—VILAS AND THE SPIRITS OF EARTH AND AIR—WIT
  8. CHAPTER V. CHARMS OR CONJURATIONS TO CURE OR PROTECT ANIMALS.
  9. CHAPTER VI. OF PREGNANCY AND CHARMS, OR FOLK-LORE CONNECTED WITH IT—BOARS’ TEETH AND CHARMS FOR PREVENTING THE FLOW OF B
  10. CHAPTER VII. THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY—LOVE-CHARMS—SHOES AND LOVE-POTIONS, OR PHILTRES.
  11. CHAPTER VIII. ROUMANIAN AND TRANSYLVANIAN SORCERIES AND SUPERSTITIONS, CONNECTED WITH THOSE OF THE GYPSIES.
  12. CHAPTER IX. THE RENDEZVOUS OR MEETINGS OF WITCHES, SORCERERS, AND VILAS.—A CONTINUATION OF SOUTH SLAVONIAN GYPSY-LORE.
  13. CHAPTER X. OF THE HAUNTS, HOMES, AND HABITS OF WITCHES IN THE SOUTH SLAVIC LANDS.—BOGEYS AND HUMBUGS.
  14. CHAPTER XI. GYPSY WITCHCRAFT.—THE MAGICAL POWER WHICH IS INNATE IN ALL MEN AND WOMEN—HOW IT MAY BE CULTIVATED AND DEVELO
  15. CHAPTER XII. FORTUNE-TELLING (continued).—ROMANCE BASED ON CHANCE, OR HOPE, AS REGARDS THE FUTURE—FOLK- AND SORCERY-LORE
  16. CHAPTER XIII. PROVERBS REFERRING TO WITCHES, GYPSIES, AND FAIRIES.
  17. CHAPTER XIV.1 A GYPSY MAGIC SPELL.—HOKKANI BĀSO—LELLIN DUDIKABIN, OR THE GREAT SECRET—CHILDREN’S RHYMES AND INCANTATIONS
  18. CHAPTER XV. GYPSY AMULETS.
  19. CHAPTER XVI. GYPSIES, TOADS, AND TOAD-LORE.
  20. INDEX.
  21. Colophon
  22. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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