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'It will give you new impressions; and I cannot bear to tie you down here. 'How you can consent to be tied down here, is the wonder to me! said he. 'When we travelled through the year, just visited England and were off again, we were driving on our own road. Vienna in April and May what do you say? You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands.
Richard Liebich, in his book, Die Zigeuner in ihrem Wesen und in ihrer Sprache, tells his readers that the only indication of a belief in a future state which he ever detected in an old Gipsy woman, was that she once dreamed she was in heaven. It appeared to her as a large garden, full of fine fat hedgehogs.
There are a very few Rommany words in this vocabulary, but then it should be remembered that there are some Arabic words in Rommany. "We tattoo and circumcise!" a phrase which sufficiently indicates their calling. In the "Deutscher Dragoman" of Dr Philip Wolff, Leipzig, 1867, I find the following under the word Zigeuner: When they go about with monkeys, they are called Kurudati, from kird, ape.
'It will give you new impressions; and I cannot bear to tie you down here. 'How you can consent to be tied down here, is the wonder to me! said he. 'When we travelled through the year, just visited England and were off again, we were driving on our own road. Vienna in April and May what do you say? You like the reviews there, and the dances, concerts, Zigeuner bands, military Bohemian bands.
Indeed, as I looked in the Gipsy's face, I began to realise that a man might be talked out of a belief in his own name, and felt a rudimentary sensation to the effect that the language of the Black Wanderers was all a dream, and Pott's Zigeuner the mere tinkling of a pot of brass, Paspati a jingling Turkish symbol, and all Rommany a praeterea nihil without the vox.
In proportion to the importance of the real existence of this word among the Gipsies must be the suspicion with which we regard it, when it depends, as in this instance, only on Borrow's assertion, who, in case of need, to supply a non-existing word, may have easily taken one from the Sanskrit." Die Zigeuner, vol. ii. p. 224.
In this case it bears a decided family-likeness to the following letter in the German-Gipsy dialect, which originally appeared in a book entitled, Beytrag zur Rottwellischen Grammatik, oder Worterbuch von der Zigeuner Spracke, Leipzig 1755, and which was republished by Dr A. F. Pott in his stupendous work, Die Zigeuner in Europa und Asien. Halle, 1844.
"Amongst a strange set of people," said I, "whom, if I were to name, you would, I dare say, only laugh at me." "Who be they?" said the jockey. "Come, don't be ashamed; I have occasionally kept queerish company myself." "The people whom we call gypsies," said I; "whom the Germans call Zigeuner, and who call themselves Romany chals." "Zigeuner!" said the Hungarian; "by Isten!
Aguardate niño, que voy a llamar al Comprachicos Take care, child, or I'll call the Comprachicos is the cry with which mothers frighten their children in that country. The Comprachicos, like the Zigeuner and the Gipsies, had appointed places for periodical meetings. From time to time their leaders conferred together.
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