Excerpt from....  “Gypsy, one scattered race, like stars in the sight of God.” Gypsies evoke images of freedom, bright colors, wild music and dancing, the allure of being “away with the raggle taggle gypsies-o,” an apt description of a people with neither written language nor written history. Gypsies are known to themselves as Roma, although the term “gypsy” comes from the incorrect assumption that they originated in Egypt. In fact the first such wanderers came from northwestern India |
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