Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling

Stok Kodu:
9786257478601
Boyut:
135-210
Sayfa Sayısı:
278
Baskı:
1
Basım Tarihi:
2021-09
Kapak Türü:
Karton
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Dili:
İngilizce
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Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling
10.78
...As their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices, so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies. And as it has not escaped many poets that there is something more strangely sweet and mysterious in the scent of cloves than in that of flowers, so the attribute of inherited magic power adds to the romance of these picturesque wanderers. Both the spices and the Romany come from the far Eastthe fatherland of divination and enchantment. The latter have been traced with tolerable accuracy, if we admit their affinity with the Indian Dom and Domar, back to the threshold of history, or well-nigh into prehistoric times, and in all ages they, or their women, have been engaged, as if by elvish instinct, in selling enchantments, peddling prophecies and palmistry, and dealing with the devil generally in a small retail way. As it was of old so it is to-day Ki shan i Romani Adoi san' i chov'hani. Wherever gypsies go, There the witches are, we know...
...As their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices, so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies. And as it has not escaped many poets that there is something more strangely sweet and mysterious in the scent of cloves than in that of flowers, so the attribute of inherited magic power adds to the romance of these picturesque wanderers. Both the spices and the Romany come from the far Eastthe fatherland of divination and enchantment. The latter have been traced with tolerable accuracy, if we admit their affinity with the Indian Dom and Domar, back to the threshold of history, or well-nigh into prehistoric times, and in all ages they, or their women, have been engaged, as if by elvish instinct, in selling enchantments, peddling prophecies and palmistry, and dealing with the devil generally in a small retail way. As it was of old so it is to-day Ki shan i Romani Adoi san' i chov'hani. Wherever gypsies go, There the witches are, we know...
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