ash-fire

Updated: June 2, 2025

That was when I was a small boy, for my father always would do it. "And we do it because people say our Saviour, the small God, was born on the Great Day, in the field, out in the country, like we Rommanis, and he was brought up by an ash-fire." Here a sudden sensation of doubt or astonishment at my ignorance seemed to occur to my informant, for he said, "Why, you can see that in the Scriptures!"

Charles Godfrey Leland - The English Gipsies and Their Language