deceive, and entertain the village town folk is a romantic notion, and one that seems a plausible explanation for the introduction of playing-cards to Europe. The problem with this theory is that Gypsies are not known to have arrived in Europe in any significant numbers until the early 15th ...
Reconstructing the Indian Origin and Dispersal of the European Roma: A Maternal Genetic Perspectivedoi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015988Previous genetic, anthropological and linguistic studies have shown that Roma (Gypsies) constitute a founder population dispersed throughout Europe whose origins might be traced...
one who was the head of the King’s household troops. A similar elevation in status occurred in Scotland, in France, and in various other places in Europe. It is from the
Pop made friends with the other travelers on the road, the most interesting were the gypsies who traveled regular routes each year. He would allow them to camp on his property in South Carolina in exchange for his family camping on their sites while he traveled north. Pop got his nickname ...
Syphilis also, which at the end of the xvth century began to infect Europe, is ignored by The Nights. I do not say it actually began: diseases do not begin except with the dawn of humanity; and their history, as far as we know, is simple enough. They are at first sporadic and com...
[B] The myth and ritual theory, as this approach came to be called, was developed most fully by British scholar Jane Ellen Harrison. Using insight gained from the work of French sociologist Emile Durkheim, Harrison argued that all myths have their origin in collective rituals of a society. ...
Since ancient times the marauders not only took wealth of India but thousands of men, women and children as slaves to be sold off as far away as Europe. The gypsies of Europe say, "We came from Bharat Mata". And when many Indian slaves died crossing the snowy mountains between India ...