{"collection":"Paganism & Neopaganism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/pag/gsft/gsft01.htm","path":"pag/gsft/gsft01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/pag/gsft/gsft01.htm","text":"Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling, by Charles Godfrey Leland, [1891]\n| | Page | \n| CHAPTER I | | \n| The Origin of Witchcraft, Shamanism, and Sorcery\u2014Vindictive and Mischievous Magic | 1 | \n| CHAPTER II | | \n| Charms and Conjurations To Cure the Disorders of Grown People\u2014Hungarian Gypsy Magic | 12 | \n| CHAPTER III | | \n| Gypsy Conjurations and Exorcisms\u2014The Cure of Children Hungarian Gypsy Spells\u2014A Curious Old Italian \"Secret\"\u2014The Magic Virtue of Garlic\u2014A Florentine Incantation Learned From A Witch\u2014Lilith, the Child-Stealer, and Queen of the Witches | 41 | \n| CHAPTER IV | | \n| South Slavonian and Other Gypsy Witch-Lore\u2014The Words For A Witch\u2014Vilas and The Spirits of Earth and Air\u2014Witches, Egg-Shells, and Egg-Lore\u2014Egg Proverbs\u2014Ova De Crucibus | 65 | \n| CHAPTER V | | \n| Charms or Conjurations to Cure or Protect Animals | 79 | \n| CHAPTER VI | | \n| Of Pregnancy and Charms or Folk-Lore Connected With it\u2014Boar's Teeth and Charms for Preventing The Flow of Blood | 100 | \n| CHAPTER VII | | \n| The Recovery of Stolen Property\u2014Love-Charms\u2014Shoes and Love-Potions or Philtres | 108 | \n| p. iv | | \n| CHAPTER VIII | | \n| Roumanian and Transylvanian Sorceries and Superstitions Connected With Those of the Gypsies | 122 | \n| CHAPTER IX | | \n| The Rendezvous or Meetings of Witches, Sorcerers, and Vilas\u2014A Continuation of South Slavonian Gypsy-Lore | 142 | \n| CHAPTER X | | \n| Of the Haunts, Homes, and Habits of Witches in the South Slavic Lands\u2014Bogeys and Humbugs | 152 | \n| CHAPTER XI | | \n| Gypsy Witchcraft\u2014The Magical Power Which Is Innate In All Men and Women\u2014How It May Be Cultivated And Developed\u2014The Principles of Fortune-Telling | 162 | \n| CHAPTER XII | | \n| Fortune-Telling (continued)\u2014Romance Based on Chance, Or Hope, As Regards the Future\u2014Folk- and Sorcery-Lore\u2014Authentic Instances of Gypsy Prediction | 186 | \n| CHAPTER XIII | | \n| Proverbs Referring to Witches, Gypsies, and Fairies | 194 | \n| CHAPTER XIV | | \n| A Gypsy Magic Spell\u2014Hokkani Baro\u2014Lellin Dudikabin, Or the Great Secret\u2014Children's Rhymes and Incantations\u2014Ten Little Indian Boys and Ten Little Acorn Girls of Marcellus Burdigalensis | 209 | \n| CHAPTER XV | | \n| Gypsy Amulets | 230 | \n| CHAPTER XVI | | \n| Gypsies, Toads, and Toad-Lore | 255 |","title":"Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling: Contents","type":"page"}