"Seven Pçuvushe, seven Nivasi Come into the field, Burn, burn, oh fire! They bite the mother's foot, They destroy the sweet child; Fire, fire, oh burn! Protect the child and the mother!" When the birth is very difficult, the mother's relations come to help, and one of them lets an egg fall, zwischen den Beinen derselben. On this occasion the gypsy women in Southern Hungary sing:-- "Ánro, ánro in obles, Te e pera in obles: Ava cavo sástávestes! Devlá, devlá, tut akharel!" "The egg, the egg is round, And the belly is round, Come child in good health! God, God calls thee!" If a woman dies in child-bed two eggs are placed under her arms and the following couplet is muttered:-- "Kana anro kirnes hin, Kathe nañi tçudá hin!" "When this egg is (shall be) decayed, Here (will be) is no milk!" When the after-pains begin it is the custom with some of the gypsy tribes in the Siebenburgen to smoke the sufferer with decayed willow-wood which is burned for the purpose while the women in attendance sing:-- "Sik te sik o tçu urál, Te urál o con urál! Kana len hádjináven Sascipená tut' áven; Káná o tçu ná urál-- Tute náñi the dukhal, Tute náñi the dukhal." "Fast and fast the smoke flies, And flies, the moon flies, When they find (themselves) Health (yet) will come to thee, "When the smoke no (longer) flies Thou wilt feel pain no more!" There is a strange, mysterious affinity between gypsies and the moon. A wonderful legend, which they certainly brought from India since in it Mekran is mentioned as the place where its incident occurred, details that there, owing to the misrepresentations of a sorcerer, the gypsy leader, Chen, was made to marry his sister Guin, or Kan, which brought the curse of wandering upon his people. Hence the Romany are called Chen-Guin. It is very evident that here we have Chon and Kan, or Kam, the Moon and Sun, which is confirmed by another gypsy legend which declares that the Sun, because he once violated or still seeks to seduce his sister, the Moon, continually follows her, being destined to wander for ever. And as the name Chen-Kan, or Zingan, or Zigeuner, is known all over the East, and, as this legend shows, is of Indian origin, it is hardly worth while to believe with Miklosich that it is derived from an obscure Greek heretical sect of Christians--the more so as it is most difficult to believe that the Romany were originally either Greeks or Christians or Christian heretics. When a gypsy woman is with child she will not, if she can help it, leave her tent by full moonshine. A child born at this time it is believed will make a happy marriage. So it is said of birth in the Western World:-- "Full moon, high sea, Great man thou shalt be; Red dawning, cloudy sky, Bloody death shalt thou die.