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href="@public@vhost@g@html@files@39665@39665-h@39665-h-14.htm.html#Page_374" class="pginternal">374, 399, n408
  • Shuffling of the Gipsies regarding marriage with ordinary natives
  • n375
  • Characters in Lavengro and the Romany Rye
  • n375, 508, n509
  • The Spanish Gipsies generally; See Disquisition on the Gipsies
  • 385-397
  • The natural capacity of Gipsies—different classes in Spain, Turkey, and Russia
  • 398
  • No washing will turn the Gipsy white, 413—Moorish Gipsies in Africa
  • 428
  • He is taken for a Gipsy in Spain, 397, and at Moscow
  • 430
  • On the grammatical peculiarities of the Gipsy language
  • n431
  • On the hatred entertained by the Gipsies for other people
  • n433
  • On Gipsy ingratitude—lawlessness in Spain
  • 435
  • Mr. Borrow as an authority on the Gipsies
  • 448, 450, 523
  • On the Russian Gipsies owning flocks and herds
  • 466
  • Description of a superior Spanish Gipsy, in 1584
  • n468
  • BRIGHT, DR. (TRAVELS IN HUNGARY.)
  • The phenomenon of the existence of the Gipsies
  • 7
  • The existence of the Gipsy language little short of the miraculous
  • 24
  • He hopes to see a satisfactory account of the Gipsies
  • 25
  • Description of Gipsy life in England
  • 30
  • Description of Gipsy dwellings, and their locations, in Hungary
  • n141
  • Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, n261—Spanish Gipsy widows
  • n274
  • The difficulties in acquiring the Gipsy language
  • n281
  • He suggests that the Gipsy language should be collated with vulgar Hindostanee
  • 330
  • An Hungarian nobleman’s opinion on the civilization of the Gipsies
  • 367
  • BRUCE, JAMES, (TRAVELS IN AFRICA.)
  • Account of the Arabs protecting shipwrecked Christians
  • n203
  • Method of selling cargoes, at Jedda, to the Turks
  • n312
  • His discoveries discredited
  • 537
  • BUNSEN, CHEVALIER, ON SOUND JUDGMENT AND SHALLOW MINDS
  • n518
  • BUNYAN, JOHN.
  • He alludes to Gipsy women stealing children, n80—He is bred to the business of a brazier
  • n206
  • His family history illustrated by the author’s visit to a Gipsy, met with at St. Boswell’s
  • 309
  • His wife before Judge Hale, n313, 517—His description of his early habits, or “youthful vanities”
  • The physical peculiarities of mixed Gipsies 375, and other mixed races
  • 376
  • Appearance of the half-blood captain—The Gipsies partial to fair hair
  • 377
  • Mixed Gipsies common everywhere—Grellmann on the colour of Gipsies
  • n377
  • American mixed Gipsies, 377—The Gipsies receive males rather than females into their tribe
  • 378
  • How female Gipsies “manage” natives, when they marry them
  • 378
  • How Gipsies are brought up to adhere to their race
  • 379
  • Remarks of Mr. George Offor on young female Gipsies generally
  • n380
  • Little difference if the father is a native—Town Gipsies visit the tent in their youth
  • n380
  • Fair-haired Gipsies, 381—They are superior to the others—the two kinds will readily marry
  • n382
  • The peculiarities of black and fair Gipsies—The pons assinorum of the Gipsy question
  • 383
  • The destiny of European-like Gipsies, and of the tribe generally
  • 383
  • The philosophy of the mixture of Gipsy blood—The issue always Gipsy
  • 384
  • Mr. Borrow on the Spanish Gipsies generally.
  • If no laws are passed against them
  • 385
  • Their social position, intermarriages, the law of Charles III. on the prejudice against the tribe
  • 386
  • Gipsyism like Freemasonry, n387—Mrs. Fall’s ancestral group of Gipsies
  • 387
  • A Scotchman on the destiny of the Gipsies, 387—Nothing interferes with the question of tribe
  • 388
  • Scottish literati on the destiny of the Gipsies—A cloud of ignorance protects the tribe
  • n388
  • The Gipsies “declining,” according to Mr. Borrow, 388—His singular inconsistencies
  • 389
  • Change in the habits of Gitanos—They are to be found in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States
  • 389
  • Mr. Borrow leaves the question of the Spanish Gipsies where he found it
  • 390
  • The Gipsies “decreasing,” by changing their habits, and intermarriages
  • 390
  • Gipsies ashamed of the name before the world—Two kinds of Gipsies in Badajoz
  • 391
  • The law of Charles III., 392—Its real meaning—Causes of Spanish Gipsy civilization
  • 393
  • The law of Charles III. little more than nominal, 394—The Church did not annoy the Gitanos
  • 395
  • Mr. Borrow’s Spanish Gipsy authorities—The tribe the same in Spain as in Great Britain
  • 395
  • “Strangers” among English Gipsies, “foreign tinkers” among those in Spain
  • 396
  • Mixed Gipsies in Spain—Persecutions against the Spanish and Scottish Gipsies
  • 397
  • The tinkers and Rothwelsh in the Austrian dominions
  • 397
  • The natural capacity of Gipsies—Opinions of Grellmann, Bischoff, Borrow
  • 398
  • Various classes of Gipsies, according to Mr. Borrow ass="level3">The scriptural idea of a Messiah—Christian Jews incog.—The conversion of Jews generally
  • 489
  • It is no elevated regard for Moses that prevents Jews entertaining the claims of Jesus Christ
  • 490
  • But rather the phenomena connected with the history of their race
  • 490
  • The Jews exist under a spell—The prophecy of Moses regarding the Gipsies
  • n491
  • The Jews are not apt to notice the present work
  • n491
  • The population of the Gipsies scattered over the world
  • 491
  • How the laws passed against the Gipsies were generally rendered nugatory
  • 492
  • Grellmann’s estimate—The probable number of Gipsies in Europe and America
  • 493
  • The population of the Jews scattered over the world
  • n493
  • Christians delude the Jews in regard to the existence of their race being a miracle
  • 493
  • The Jew’s idea of the existence of his race is the greatest bar to his conversion to Christianity
  • 494
  • The “mixed multitude” of the Exodus was doubtless the origin of the Gipsies
  • 494
  • The meaning of Gamaliel’s advice—St. Paul before the Jewish council
  • n494
  • The history of the Gipsies and the Jews greatly illustrate each other
  • 496
  • The distinction between an Englishman and an English Jew
  • 496
  • Persecutions of races generally—How to prevent a Gipsy being a Gipsy
  • 496
  • Tacitus on the religion of slaves
  • n496
  • Birth and rearing constitute Jews, Gipsies, and Gentiles
  • 497
  • Christian Jews persecuted by their own race—The Disraeli and Cappadoce families
  • 497
  • Christianity was not intended, nor is it capable, to destroy the nationality of Jews
  • 498
  • The Jew may be crossed out by intermarriage—The Gipsy absorbs other races
  • 498
  • Gipsies and Jews have each a peculiarly original and distinct soul of nationality
  • 499
  • Each race maintains its identity in the world, and may be said to be even eternal
  • 499
  • Comparison and contrast between Gipsies and Jews
  • 499
  • The existence of the Jews, like that of the Gipsies, rests upon a question of people
  • 501
  • The religion or the Jews, 501—Their idea of a Messiah
  • 502
  • Difference between Judaism and Christianity
  • 502
  • The position of Jews towards Christianity and other religions
  • 502
  • The persecutions of Jews and Gipsies—The extent of a Gipsy’s wants
  • 502
  • The Jews show little regard for their religion, when tolerated and well treated
  • 503
  • The prejudice against Jews—Their ideas of their race, as distinguished from others
  • 503
  • The treatment of Christians by Jews
  • 504
  • What has the Jew got to say to this subject generally?
  • 504
  • The philosophy of the Gipsies—Popular ideas in regard to them—A mental phenomenon
  • 280
  • Robert Southey and Colonel Tod on the sacrifice of the horse in India
  • 280
  • The sacrifice of the horse by the Gipsies, a proof that the people came from India
  • 280
  • DRESS OF THE GIPSIES
  • 43, 77, 79, 108, 116, 129, 145, 149, 154, 157, 162, 171, 177, 182, 186, 197, 202, 209, 213, 214
  • DRUIDS, destruction of the, in the Island of Anglesey
  • n479
  • DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
  • The number of words sufficient for every-day use, in any language
  • n432
  • Bunyan’s nationality: “Was John Bunyan a Gipsy?”
  • 512
  • EDINBURGH REVIEW, The, on the purity of Gipsy blood—Mr. Borrow’s “Gipsies in Spain”
  • 374
  • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION.
  • The discovery and history of barbarous races illustrate the history of man, and natural and revealed religion
  • 27
  • Barbarism within, and barbarism without, the circle of civilization
  • 27
  • The Gipsies an anomaly in the history of civilization, and merit great consideration
  • 27
  • European civilization progressive, and homogeneous in its nature
  • 28
  • Asiatic civilization stationary and, in some countries, divided into castes
  • 28
  • The nature of caste in India
  • 28
  • The natives of certain parts of Oceanic Asia
  • 29
  • The condition of the most original kind of Gipsies, in Great Britain—Their secrecy
  • 29
  • Description of Gipsy life in England, by Dr. Bright
  • 30
  • The first appearance of the Gipsies in Europe—Attempts at elucidating their history
  • 31
  • The political state of Europe at the beginning of the fifteenth century
  • 31
  • The great schism in the church—Three Popes reigning at one time
  • 32
  • The educational end social condition of Europe about that time
  • 33
  • The manner in which the Gipsies stole into Europe
  • 35
  • The influx of the Greeks into Europe—The literary pursuits of the age, 37—English travellers
  • 38
  • The Gipsies not Sudras—Timour—The Gipsies at Samarcand previous to his invasion of India
  • 39
  • The Gipsies did not obtain the name of Egyptians from others, as Mr. Borrow supposes
  • 39
  • The Gipsies are not the Egyptians mentioned by the Prophet Ezekiel 665@39665-h@39665-h-9.htm.html#Page_253" class="pginternal">253
  • FLETCHER OF SALTOUN on Scottish vagabonds, in 1680
  • n111, n417
  • FORTUNE-TELLING.
  • Fortune-telling women frighten the natives of the other sex
  • 47
  • See Tweed-dale Gipsies
  • 228-231
  • Fortune-telling in America—See Disquisition on the Gipsies
  • 422
  • FREEMASONRY AND THE GIPSIES
  • 12, n360, n387, 456
  • GENTOO CODE OF LAWS IN ANCIENT INDIA.
  • Division of plunder among thieves
  • 165
  • The elder married before the younger, 259—Sacrifice of the horse, 268—The scape-goat among the Jews
  • 279
  • GERMANS, how they become lost in the population of Great Britain and America
  • 454
  • GERMANY, Gipsy bands in
  • 79
  • GITANO, modification of the term
  • n115
  • GORDON, THE DUCHESS OF, saves two Gipsies from the gallows
  • 470
  • GOVERNMENT AMONG THE GIPSIES
  • 78, n103, 183, 187, 216, 253, n256, 422
  • GRATITUDE OF THE GIPSIES FOR OTHER PEOPLE
  • 68, 130, 138, 155, 164, 177, 187, 198, 211, 222, 225, 241, 360, 434, 483
  • GRELLMANN.
  • Children frightened by the Gipsies
  • n46, 75
  • On the destiny of the French Gipsies
  • 76, 492
  • He divides the Gipsies in Transylvania into four classes, 74—The population of the Gipsies
  • 77, 493
  • Gipsy government, 78—Attire, n154—Plundering, 171—Fighting
  • n193
  • Gipsies under and after punishment
  • n204
  • The habit of Gipsy women after childbirth459—Jews during time of war
  • n360
  • Neglect of women among Jews—A Jew’s morning prayer
  • n365
  • Jews and Gipsies compared in a sermon by Mr. Borrow
  • n366
  • They marry among themselves, like the Gipsies
  • 369
  • The money that is squandered on the conversion of Jews
  • 443
  • The subject of the Jews more or less familiar to people from infancy
  • 447
  • The Gipsies, without any necessary outward peculiarities, have yet a nationality, like the Jews
  • 447, 457
  • The mixture of Gipsy and Jewish blood—A Jewish Gipsy possible
  • 451
  • In what respect the existence of the Gipsies differs from that of the Jews
  • 458
  • Philosophical historians on the existence of the Jews since the dispersion
  • 458
  • No analogy between the Jews and any other people but the Gipsies
  • 459
  • A Christian writer on the existence of the Jews since the dispersion
  • 459
  • His description thereof, though erroneous, very applicable to the Gipsies
  • 460
  • The attachment of Jewesses and Gipsies to their respective races
  • 470
  • How the Jewish race is perpetuated—Religion of secondary importance
  • 473
  • Jewish Christians—Their feelings of nationality, and social position
  • 474
  • The rearing of Gipsies resembles that of Jews—The purity of Jewish blood a figment
  • 475
  • Half-blood Jews sometimes follow the synagogue, and sometimes the Christian church
  • 476
  • Many Jews who are not known to the world as such
  • 477
  • Jewish physiognomy—What may be termed a “pure Jew”
  • 477
  • The relative position of Jews and Gipsies
  • 477-480
  • The Jews have a church, a history, and a literature
  • 480
  • Public sympathy for the Gipsies, in preference to the Jews
  • 483
  • The philosophy of the existence of the Jews since the dispersion See Disquisition on the Gipsies
  • 484-505
  • John Bunyan asked himself whether he was of the Israelites
  • 511
  • The Jews readmitted into England, under Cromwell—Manasseh Ben Israel
  • 511
  • The natural curiosity of the Gipsies regarding the Jews
  • 511
  • The Gipsies have existed, in Europe, a greater length of time than the Jews dwelt in Egypt
  • 532
  • It would have been a miracle had the Jews been lost among mankind
  • 533
  • A prophecy of Moses regarding a people who are to provoke and anger the Jews
  • n491, 533
  • LAIDLAW, WILLIAM.
  • His letter to the author, 58—A Gipsy “blowing up,” alluded to by him
  • 65, 309
  • LANGUAGE OF THE GIPSIES.
  • The love 39665-h@39665-h-10.htm.html#Footnote168" class="pginternal">n257
  • Gipsy courtships—The younger sister not married before the elder
  • 258
  • The Gipsy multiplication table—The Gipsies obey one of the divine laws at least
  • n258
  • A parallel between the ancient Hindoos and the Jews during the time of Laban
  • 259
  • The nuptial ceremony of the Gipsies of great antiquity, and one the longest to be observed
  • 259
  • Marriage customs generally—Those of the Gipsies should be made public
  • 260
  • Sir Walter Scott not squeamish about delicacies, when knowledge is to be acquired
  • 260
  • The ideas of prudes and snobs on this chapter
  • n260
  • The Scottish Gipsy marriage ceremony described
  • 260-263
  • The Spanish Gipsy marriage ceremony, according to Bright, n261—and Borrow
  • n262
  • Singular marriage customs among other tribes—“Hand-fasting” among Scottish Highland chiefs
  • n262
  • Recent instances of Scottish Gipsy marriages, 263—A Gipsy on the Presbyterian form of marriage
  • n264
  • Description of Peter Robertson, a famous celebrator of Gipsy marriages
  • 264
  • In his will, he gives away, during his life, more than a county, but reserves to himself a “pendicle,” and the town of Dunfermline
  • 265
  • Remarks on rams and rams’ horns
  • n265
  • The Gipsy priest given to good ale, and chastising his tribe without mercy
  • 266
  • MILLER, HUGH, on the slavery of Scotch colliers and salters
  • n121
  • MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER.
  • The Scott clan agree to give up all friendship with common thieves, &c.
  • 113
  • Song of “Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie,”[331] 289—Of “Hughie the GrÆme”
  • 307
  • MIRACLES.
  • There is no miracle in the existence of the Jews since the dispersion
  • 458, 459, 494, 533
  • They are to be found in the Old and New Testaments only
  • 494
  • They are things that are contrary to natural laws
  • 533
  • It would have been a miracle had the Jews been lost among mankind
  • 533
  • MIXTURE OF GIPSY BLOOD
  • 9, n80, n92, 341, 342, 374, 377-379, 399, 468
  • MIXED GIPSIES, PECULIARITIES OF
  • 10, n195, 372, 373, 375, ged—Their present punishment—They cannot fail to encrease
  • n367
  • The civilization and improvement of the Gipsies—An Hungarian nobleman’s opinion
  • 367
  • The restless nature of the Gipsies—How it is manifested
  • n368
  • The language of the Gipsies should be published, and the tribe encouraged to speak it openly
  • 369
  • The plan of the Rev. Mr. Crabb, n368, and the Rev. Mr. Baird for the civilization of the Gipsies
  • n369
  • The difficulty in distinguishing some of the tribe from common natives
  • n369
  • The Gipsies marry among themselves, like the Jews, and “stick to each other.”
  • 369
  • PRINCIPAL GIPSY FAMILIES IN SCOTLAND.
  • Faw
  • 101, n103, 106, 107, 108, n113, 118, 121, 188, 236, 250, 252, 255, 406
  • Baillie
  • 101, n103, 118, 119, 120, 121, 185, 186, 188, 196, 197, 202-208, 212, 213, 215, 219, 236, 411
  • PRITCHARD on the Hungarian race, past and present
  • 413
  • PROPHECIES.
  • “Scattering of the Egyptians,” Ezek. xxix. 12-14, and xxx. 10, 23 and 26
  • 40
  • “A people that are to provoke and anger the Jews,” Deut. xxxii. 21, and Rom. x. 19
  • n491, 533
  • PYRENEES, The Gipsies of the, resemble the inferior class of Scottish Gipsies
  • 86
  • QUAKERS.
  • Gipsy-Quakers, or Quaker-Gipsies
  • n380
  • The result of their society being dissolved
  • 448
  • The nature of the perpetuation of their existence
  • 494
  • QUEENSFERRY, NORTH.
  • Stylish habits of Gipsy plunderers at the inn at
  • 171
  • Fashionable cavalcade of female Gipsies departing from
  • 173
  • The boatmen and their friends—“the lads that take the purses”
  • 173
  • Gipsy scenes at194
  • The trifling occasions of Gipsies fighting, and agreeing among themselves
  • n195
  • The fencibles and the clergy called out to quell and disperse the Gipsies
  • n195
  • Assault of the Gipsies on Pennicuik House
  • n195
  • An insult offered to the mother of the Baillies resented, with drawn swords
  • 196
  • Contribution from Mr. Blackwood towards a history of the Gipsies
  • 196
  • Pickpockets at Dumfries, headed by Will Baillie—How he and his tribe travelled to fairs—He returns a farmer his purse, 197—The farmer, when intoxicated, goes to visit him—Baillie pays a widow’s rent, and saves her from ruin, 198—He borrows money, and gives the lender a pass of protection, 199—The pass, after scrutiny by two of the tribe, protects its bearer—Baillie repays his loan with a large interest—The “Jock Johnstone” gang of Gipsies, 200—Jock, in a drunken squabble, kills a country ale-wife—His jack-daw proves a bird of bad omen to him, and he a bird of bad omen to his executioner
  • 201
  • Jock’s execution, as described by Dr. Alexander Carlyle
  • n201
  • William Baillie, a handsome, well-dressed, good-looking, well- bred man, and an excellent swordsman
  • 202
  • Like a wild Arab, he distributes the wares of a trembling packman, who extols, wherever he goes, “the extraordinary liberality of Captain Baillie,”
  • 203
  • Bruce on the protection given by Arabs to shipwrecked Christians
  • n203
  • In indulging his sarcastic wit, Baillie insults the judge on the bench
  • 203
  • The deportment of Hungarian Gipsies during and after punishment
  • n204
  • Baillie’s numerous crimes and sentences
  • 204
  • The nature of “sorning,” n204—Gipsies carried arms in the olden times
  • n205
  • Baillie’s policy in claiming kin with honourable families
  • 205
  • He is slain by one of the tribe while in the arms of his wife
  • 206
  • His murderer pursued by the tribe over the British Isles, till he is apprehended and executed
  • 206
  • Legal enquiry regarding the slaughter of Baillie, 206—The trial of his murderers
  • 208
  • William Baillie succeeded by Matthew Baillie—His descendants
  • 208
  • Mary Yorkston, wife of Matthew Baillie, a Gipsy queen and priestess
  • 208
  • Her appearance and costume, on gala days, when advanced in years
  • 209
  • Old Gipsy women strip people of their clothes, like the Arabs of the desert
  • 209
  • Mary Yorkston restores a stolen purse to a friend—Her husband first counts its contents—“There is your purse, sir; you see what it is, when honest people meet!”
  • 210
  • A Gipsy chief chastises his wife for want of diligence or success at a fair
  • 211
  • Mary Yorkston and her particular friend, the good-man of Coulter-park
  • 211
  • She scorns alms, but demands and takes by force a “boontith,”
  • 211
  • Her son, James Baillie, condemned and pardoned again and again
  • 212
  • The Baillies of Lamington’s influence successful in his case
  • 213
  • Stylish dress of the male head of the Ruthvens—The Gipsy costume generally[331] The song of “Johnny Faa, the Gipsy Laddie,” appears in the Waverly anecdotes. It might have been included in the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.



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