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Doubtless this is why among the Welsh hills the old saying used to be "The spirits follow the crwth." 'Which folly is the more besotted, I said, as I read and re-read the marginalia 'that of the scholar with his scientific nonsense about vibrations, or that of the ignorant Gypsy with her living mullos drawn through the air by music and love?
Wishing to have the exact words and views of a real Rommany on this subject, I made inquiry, and noted down his reply, which was literally as follows: "Avali; when Rommany chals or juvos are mullos, their pals don't kaum to shoon their navs pauli it kairs 'em too bongo so they're purabend to waver navs. Saw don't kair it kek but posh do, kenna.
Yes, they chase spirits just the same as anything in the world bite 'em, fight 'em, tear 'em because dogs cannot be hurt by ghosts." "Dogs," I replied, "sometimes hunt men as well as ghosts." "Avo; but men can fool the juckals avree, and men too, and mullos can't." "How do they kair it?" "If a choramengro kaums to chore a covva when the snow is apre the puvius, he jals yeck piro, palewavescro.
Some chivs covvas pash the mullos adree the puv, and boot adusta don't." Dighton told me the other day, that three thousand pounds were hidden with one of the Chilcotts. And I have heard of some Stanleys who were buried with gold rings on their fingers. 'Do all the Gipsies do that? No! some put things with the dead in the earth, and many do not."
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