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30 mar 2023 · Video. Europe is home to 10-12 million Roma, yet many Europeans are unable to answer the basic question, “Who are the Roma?”. The remarkable history of Gypsies, Roma, and Travellers in Europe, beginning over 1,000 years ago, tells a story of diversity, creativity, and survival.
Colloquially, and rather insultingly, known as 'gypsies', the history and culture of the Romani people is surrounded by stereotypes and misnomers, none more damningly pervasive than Esméralda from the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Because of such images spread by mass media's misunderstandings of the Romani, it is often believed that the Romani ...
Literary works include Middleton and Rowley's The Spanish Gypsie, 1653, Glanvill's Vanity of dogmatizing, 1661 (the inspiration for Matthew Arnold's ‘The Scholar Gypsy’), and many 19th-century novels with Gypsy themes or characters.
Romani folklore encompasses the folktales, myths, oral traditions, and legends of the Romani people. The Romani were nomadic when they departed India during the Middle Ages . They migrated widely, particularly to Europe , while other groups stayed and became sedentary.
The Romany Tradition. Below you will find an excerpt from a book on Gypsy Magic by Patrinella Cooper, where she talks about the Romany Tradition, and where Gypsies come from. You may be forgiven for thinking that the Romany people are fire worshipers. Fire draws them like a magnet.
Picturing Gypsies. An exhibition from the Gypsy Lore Society archive and Scott Macfie Gypsy collections mounted in the University Art Gallery, 4 September-6 October 2000 in association with The Role of the Romanies conference at the University of Liverpool, 17-20 September 2000. Katy Hooper, Special Collections Librarian, September 2000.
The Gypsy Lore Society, an international association of persons interested in Gypsy and Traveler Studies, was founded in Great Britain in 1888. Since 1989 it has been headquartered in the United States.
