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The Gypsy Lore Society, an international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888. Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States.
- History of The Gypsy/Roma
- Gypsy/Rom History in The Us
- Gypsy/Rom Fortune-Telling
- Gypsies/Rom During The Holocaust
- The Ancient Power of Healing – Romani Gypsy Shamanism
- Gypsies in The Holocaust: “The Black Triangle”
- Published Information on Gypsies/Roma
Diverse, nomadic…to be Roma, or “gypsy”, is to be a member of an ethnic minority that is difficult to define in any definite, factual terms. Throughout their history, the Roma have been comprised of many different groups of people, absorbing outsiders and other cultures while migrating across continents. This has resulted in creating a patchwork of...
The Rom arrived in the United States and Canada from Serbia, Russia, and Austria-Hungary beginning in the 1880s, as part of the larger wave of immigration from southern and eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Primary immigration ended, for the most part, in 1914, with the beginning of the First World War and subsequent tighten...
It is difficult to think of a Gypsy and not see the image of a crystal ball or tarot cards. Since their push into Persia, Gypsies/Roma has been simultaneously linked with fortune-telling. From the Eastern, holistic and magical context to their Indian origins, Gypsies or Romas, are prized for their remarkable psychic abilities and the gift to attrac...
Like Jews, the Rom Gypsies were chosen for total annihilation just because of their race. Even though Jews are defined by religion, Hitler saw the gypsies as a race that he believed needed to be completely annihilated. The Nazis believed that both the Jews and Gypsies were racially inferior and degenerate and therefore worthless. On December 16, 19...
Deep in the Romanian forest, at the darkest time of night, a Chovihano (Gypsy Shaman) squats over a wooden floor as he engages in an ancient healing ritual. The ones that gather for healing do not see what the Chovihano is doing for he is bathed in the blackness of the night. All they can hear is his low conversations with the Trees and with the Sp...
This infuriates me to no end that the deaths of so many gypsies have been ignored by a large chunk of the world – mostly in the United States. This is why I wrote the screenplay, The Black Triangle, a historical drama with fact blended in with fiction to create a compelling and eye opening story. I have tried to shop it to H’wood. But since I am an...
**Note from Allie: This list was comprised by a well-read gentleman on Gypsies & Roma. His name is Caiyros. I honestly cannot remember where I got this list from, but I do know that this list needs to be credited to the right person.** Bibliography For Romani, Gypsy, etc: Acton, Thomas. Gypsy Politics and Social Change. London: Routledge and Kegan ...
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Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during the Middle Ages. They migrated widely, particularly to Europe, while other groups stayed and became sedentary.
The Gypsy Lore Society was founded in Great Britain in 1888 to unite persons interested in the history and lore of Gypsies and rovers and to establish closer contacts among scholars studying aspects of such cultures.
His recordings of old ballads and Gypsy Traveller songs are wonderful, but hearing them live -- as they are meant to be heard -- is just extraordinary. Above: A BBC profile of Lee's " Singing With the Nightingales ," an annual series of events in which folk, classical, and jazz musicians collaborate with nightingales in their natural habitats.
Gypsy Lore Society Collections. The historical archive and library collections of the Gypsy Lore Society, mostly mid 19th to mid 20th century. From 2018, a number of articles in the journal Critical Romani Studies have provided Romani-centred perspectives on the Gypsy Lore Society.
Oct 5, 2016 · Scholars advanced the image of the swarthy, uncivilized, lazy, uneducated wanderer and criminal known as the Gypsy. In the early 1600s Spellman defined Romani people as “the worst kind of wanderers and impostors…disfigured by their swarthiness; sun- burnt; filthy in their clothing, and indecent in all their customs.”.
