It requires no sorcery to conjecture that the gypsy already knew the habits of the schoolmaster, as the Romany is generally familiar with the tavern of every town. To predict a misfortune at large is a sure card for every prophetess. What is remarkable is that a man of the world and one widely travelled, as was my informant, attached great importance to the story. It is evident that where so much of the sherris sack of faith accompanies such a small crust of miracle there must be a state of society in which miracles in their real sense are perfectly capable of being worked. CHAPTER XIII. PROVERBS REFERRING TO WITCHES, GYPSIES, AND FAIRIES. "Of Fairies, Witches, Gypsies, My nourrice sang to me, Sua Gypsies, Fairies, Witches, I alsua synge to thee." ("Denham Tract.") Dr. Krauss has in his work, "Sreca, Gluck und Schicksal im Volksglauben der Südslaven," collected a number of sayings in reference to his subject, from which I have taken some, and added more from other sources. Of an evil woman one says, as in all languages, "To je vila"--that is, "a witch"; or it is uttered or muttered as, "To je vila ljutica"--that is, "a biting (or bitter) witch"; or to a woman whom one dislikes, "Idi vilo!"--"Begone, witch!" as in gypsy, "Jasa tu chovihani!" Also, as in German, "Ako i je baba, nije vjestica"--"Though she is an old woman she is no witch"; while, on the other hand, we have, "Svake baba viestica, a djed vjestac"--"Every old woman is a witch, and every old man a wizard." The proverb, "Bizi ko vistica od biloga luka"--"she runs from it like a witch from white garlic"--will be found fully explained in the chapter on "The Cure of Children," in which it is shown that from early times garlic has been a well-known witch-antidote. Another saying is, "Uzkostrsila se ko vistica"--"Her hair is as tangled, or twisted, as that of a witch"; English gypsy, "Lakis balia shan risserdi sar i chovihanis." But this has a slightly different meaning, since in the Slavonian it refers to matted, wild-looking locks, while the Romany is according to a belief that the hair of a witch is curled at the ends only. Allied to this is the proverb, "Izgleda kao aa su ga coprnice doniele sa Ivanjscica"--"He looks as if the witches had done for him (or brought him away, 'fetched' him) on Saint John's Eve"; English Romany, "Yuv dikela sá soved a lay sar a chovihani"--"He looks as if he had lain with a witch." "Svaka vracara s vrazje strane"--"Every witch belongs to the devil's gang"--that is, she has, sold her soul to him and is in his interests. This is allied to the saying, "Kud ce vjestica do u svoj rod?"--"Where should a witch go if not to her kin?" or, "Birds of a feather flock together."