Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) GYPSY SORCERY AND FORTUNE TELLING ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS INCANTATIONS, SPECIMENS OF MEDICAL MAGIC, ANECDOTES AND TALES BY CHARLES GODFREY LELAND PRESIDENT OF THE GIPSY-LORE SOCIETY, &c., &c. COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MDCCCXCI DEDICATION. THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MY COLLEAGUES OF THE CONGRÈS DES TRADITIONS POPULAIRES, HELD AT PARIS, JULY, 1889; AND ESPECIALLY TO THE FRENCH MEMBERS OF THAT BODY, IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR GENEROUS HOSPITALITY, AND UNFAILING KINDNESS AND COURTESY, BY CHARLES G. LELAND. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE I. THE ORIGIN OF WITCHCRAFT, SHAMANISM, AND SORCERY.-- VINDICTIVE AND MISCHIEVOUS MAGIC 1 II. CHARMS AND CONJURATIONS TO CURE THE DISORDERS OF GROWN PEOPLE.--HUNGARIAN GYPSY MAGIC 12 III. GYPSY CONJURATIONS AND EXORCISMS--THE CURE OF CHILDREN-- HUNGARIAN GYPSY SPELLS--A CURIOUS OLD ITALIAN "SECRET"-- THE MAGIC VIRTUE OF GARLIC--A FLORENTINE INCANTATION LEARNED FROM A WITCH--LILITH, THE CHILD-STEALER, AND QUEEN OF THE WITCHES 41 IV. SOUTH SLAVONIAN AND OTHER GYPSY WITCH-LORE.--THE WORDS FOR A WITCH--VILAS AND THE SPIRITS OF EARTH AND AIR-- WITCHES, EGG-SHELLS, AND EGG-LORE--EGG PROVERBS--OVA DE CRUCIBUS 65 V. CHARMS OR CONJURATIONS TO CURE OR PROTECT ANIMALS 79 VI. OF PREGNANCY AND CHARMS, OR FOLK-LORE CONNECTED WITH IT--BOARS' TEETH AND CHARMS FOR PREVENTING THE FLOW OF BLOOD 100 VII. THE RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY--LOVE-CHARMS--SHOES AND LOVE-POTIONS, OR PHILTRES 108 VIII. ROUMANIAN AND TRANSYLVANIAN SORCERIES AND SUPERSTITIONS, CONNECTED WITH THOSE OF THE GYPSIES 122 IX. THE RENDEZVOUS OR MEETINGS OF WITCHES, SORCERERS, AND