Why Parsley?

If parsley is thrown into fishponds,
it will heal the sick fishes therein.

~Turner

The most popular culinary herb is probably parsley. The Romany folk used it for many cures. Parsley is best when fresh and green, and goes with almost any dish, adding not only flavour but also helping to keep the system clear and disease at bay. Incidentally, a sprig dipped in vinegar and chewed will sweeten the sourest of breath....

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Curing Depression

The Romany philosophy is that depression attracts depression like a vibration. To ward it off play happy music or mix with happy people. Alternatively, walk to a hilltop to literally rise above your problem. Looking down on roads, cars, houses, and people makes them appear in better perspective.

Romanies always try to look on the bright side of any situation. However, if that is not so easy, try this Romany antidote to the blues...

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Love Spell

Follow whoever it is you wish will love you. When they step into a piece of soil and leave their footprint, scoop up the dirt and put it into a flowerpot. Plant a sunflower...

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Attracting Romance

If you wish to attract romance to your life, choose a night when the moon is new or full. Stand outside next to water - a stream, a well, a river, or even a garden pond....

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Urgent Money Spell

Urgent Money Spell

The Romanies say that when money is urgently needed by a certain date, this spell works wonders. One thing to remember: it must be performed at the witching hour of midnight.

Take one white votive (or tea light) candle to represent each $100 or $1,000 that you critically need. Stand them on a plate you often eat from.

At a quarter to midnight, sit in a room with no electric lights. Light a gold or silver, green or white candle (not one of those representing money). This is the candle that will give power to the "money" votive candles and will enable you to see what you are doing....

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Increase Money - Decrease Money Problems

A Charm to Increase Money and Decrease Money Problems

On the night of the crescent moon,

place a coin on a windowsill with the head facing up.

This encourages money to increase.

Leave it there until the moon is full,

then flip the coin so the tails side is facing up...

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Meet With Success

This is a "commanding" spell and will place you on the threshold of success.

(It may also be used to increase your personal power before an important meeting.)

Have in your mind a clear idea of what it is that you want to succeed with. Light a blue candle in front of a mirror. Sit at the mirror and stare into your own eyes in search of your soul....

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Bringing Money Home

Here is a spell for bringing money right through your front door:

When the moon is new, sprinkle a $1, $10, $20 or $50 bill with cinnamon and then secretly place it underneath the front doormat inside your home.

It will be charged with positive energy...

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The Gypsy Way

The Gypsy tradition goes back to the darkest reaches of time. It uses simple spells and rituals to harness the power of nature and of the elemental spirits that are all around us.

The Gypsy people are as independent in thought as they are in other areas of life, and they don't believe that a clergyman is really necessary to intercede between a person and the 'powers that be'. Although most Romanies would profess a belief in  ....

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Gypsy Mojo for Love

Collect a few rose leaves and petals, three or seven apple or pomegranate seeds and a small gemstone, which can be turquoise, emerald, or aquamarine (this doesn't have to be genuine; if you really can't obtain one, use colored glass).

Also gather a heart-shaped object (maybe a charm or a naturally shaped stone), a feather from a dove or pigeon or gathered from ...

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A Gypsy Medicine Bag

Here is a Medicine Bag to be carried or worn to facilitate healing. Gather the following ingredients:

• A sprig each of St. John's wort, woundwort, and self-heal
• Twig or leaf from an oak tree
• Tiny water-worn pebble, which should be round or disc-shaped and preferably have a reddish or orange hue...

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Gypsy Pouches and Mojo Bags

Magickal pouches are found universally. Australian aboriginals, Amerindian shamans, Voodoo Bokos, African medicine men, European wisewomen - all employ pouches stuffed with various ingredients that they feel bring health, wealth, luck (good or bad), and/or protection. They may be called wanga, gris-gris, mojo bags, or whatever.

The Gypsies, too, make and carry such items. Depending on the purpose, so do the contents vary. The name for a Gypsy pouch is "putsi," the real meaning of which is "pocket." ...

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Needle Luck Magick

A needle that is accidentally dropped and then found poking upward foretells a visitor before the end of the day. The needle should be picked up and kept. As they say:

Find a pin, pick it up

And all day long you'll have good luck.

To extend your luck for longer than one day...

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Romany Valentine's Day Divination

By tradition many species of birds begin pairing off at this time. The Romanies say that if you are unattached, a bay leaf placed under your pillow on St. Valentine's Day...

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Romany Folklore, Magicks, History, and More

If you are interested in the history of and folklore about the Romany people, if you are curious about their magick, beliefs, and etc, you are on the right page. Here we have a complete listing of posts on all of the above and more.

General Info

• Gypsies and Dreaming
• Gypsy Ways and Magic
• Ingredients for Magick
• On Healing Your Pets
• The First Step
• The Gypsy Way

History

• Book of the Wisdom of the Egyptians
• Gypsy Fortune Telling
• Gypsy Funeral
• Gypsy Life - Not as romantic as it sounds
• Gypsy Names
• King of the Gypsies
• The Gypsy Horse
• The Historical Gypsy
• The True Romany
• Romany Gypsies in Canterbury Kent 1939
• What Is Cauring?
• What Is The Hukni?

Language

• Gypsy Names
• Rhymed List of Gypsy Verbs

Customs and Folklore

• A Gypsy House
• An Old Story About a Gypsy
• Cat Lore
• Ederlezi
• Go Move Shift
• Gypsy Love Song
• Kushti Atchin Tan
• More Teeth Lore
• Romani Gypsy Folklore
• The Gypsy Diet
• The Gypsy Vardo
• The Romani Flag
• The Romany Rye
• Time of the Gypsies
• Vanslow Smith Talks About Boorsron

Romany Spells and Cures

• A Gypsy Spell for Love
• Amulets and Talismans
• An Easter Monday Bicaben
• An Old Gypsy Cure For Nervousness
• Apple Love Spell
• Attracting Romance
• Authentic Gypsy Herbal Cures
• Bringing Money Home
• Curing Depression
• Dog Healing
• Easy Money
• Focus The Energy
• For Peace at Someone's Death or Dying
• God Energy
• Gypsies and Dreaming
• Gypsy Cure for Indigestion
• Gypsy Cures for Colds and Coughs
• Gypsy Fetish for Successful Sales
• Gypsy Good Luck Invocation
• Gypsy Hair Divinations
• Gypsy Iron Protection Spell
• Gypsy Justice Spell
• Gypsy Pouches and Mojo Bags
• Gypsy Prayer To The Virgin
• Gypsy Prayers, Chants, and Affirmations
• Gypsy Spell For A Lovers Return
• Gypsy Spell For a Windy Day
• Gypsy Spell for Good Fortune
• Gypsy Spell For Love
• Gypsy Spell to Have An Object Returned
• Gypsy Spell To Make A Wish Come True
• Halloween Gypsy Love Divinations
• Healing Mantras Romany Style
• Healing Old Wounds
• Healing With Crystal Magic
• Hiccups - Old Gypsy Cures
• Horse Whispering
• Make Friends With Fate
• Making A Parik Til For Luck and Success
• Making Miracles Happen
• Meet With Success
• Old Gypsy Cure for a Toothache
• Out With The Old In With The New
• Prosperity In A Cup
• Reading Tea Leaves - Basic Instructions
• Reading Tea Leaves
• Remove Misfortune
• Romany Home Sweet Home Spell
• Romany New Moon Ritual
• Romany New Year's Eve Love Divination
• Romany Rose Spell for Love
• Romany Rosemary Divination
• Romany Spell To Avoid Bad Luck
• Romany Spell To Get Rid of Problems
• Romany Water Divination
• Rumanian Money Spell
• Spell To Conceive a Daughter
• Spell To Conceive a Son
• Stomping Out Problems
• The First Step
• The Zee Energy
• To Heal A Cat Wound
• To Remove A Headache
• Urgent Money Spell
• Winning The Lottery
• Wishing On A Star
• Your Heart's Desire
• Zee Meditation

Gypsy Food

• Ballivas Gooee - Bacon Pudding
• Campfire Bread
• Carrot Onion and Lemon Soup
• Chicken Soup for the Soul
• Dandelion Coffee
• Dandelion Greens with Sausage
• Dandelion Salad with Cooked Dressing
• Dandelion Soup
• Fried Dandelion Blossoms
• Gembétsa
• Granny's Shooshi Dinner
• Griddle Cakes - Gypsy Style
• Gypsy Dumplings
• Gypsy Open Sandwich
• Gypsy Pumpkin Bread
• Gypsy Style Turkey Soup with Dumplings
• Gypsy Toast
• Joe Grey Soup - Traditional Gypsy Recipe
• Jugged Kaunengro - Rabbit Stew
• Lamb Stew - Gypsy Style
• Mas Gooee - Meat Pudding
• Nettle Soup
• Pecked Bittikanni (Roast Partridge)
• Pirógo le Strugurlása
• Poachers Stew
• Pork and Bean Soup
• Quick Biscuits - Gypsy Style
• Románo Tcháyo
• Sármi
• Shax shukló
• Stuffed Baked Shooshi (baked rabbit)
• The Gypsy Diet
• Tomato and Lentil Quick Soup
• Ukrainian Borscht

Videos

• Ederlezi
• Go Move Shift
• Kushti Atchin Tan
• Romani Gypsy Folklore
• Romany Gypsies in Canterbury Kent - 1939
• Time of the Gypsies

Romany Holy Days, Feast Days, and etc

• An Easter Monday Bicaben
• The Ascent of the Christ of the Gypsies
• Festival of the Holy Marys
• Pilgrimage of the Gypsies
• Rousalii - Romania

Gypsy Spell To Have An Object Returned

These are easy remedies that will help you to regain an object that someone has failed to return.

Pick a convenient time of day when you will be able to sit undisturbed for five minutes. Use the power of your will to bring the object back to you. If your will is strong, the thief will begin to feel uncomfortable, and will finally bring the missing item to you.

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What is Cauring?

Cauring is an old gypsy trick - here's how it works:

The Gypsy has some queer, old-fashioned gold piece; this she takes to some goldsmith's shop, at the window of which she has observed a basin full of old gold coins, and shows it to the goldsmith, asking him if he will purchase it. He looks at it attentively, and sees that it is of very pure gold; whereupon he says that he has no particular objection to buy it; but that as it is very old it is not of much value, and that he has several like it....

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What is The Hukni?

The hukni is an old Gypsy trick - here's how it works:

The Gypsy makes some poor simpleton of a lady believe that if the latter puts her gold into her hands, and she makes it up into a parcel, and puts it between the lady's feather-bed and mattress, it will at the end of a month be multiplied a hundredfold, provided the lady does not look at it during all that time. On receiving the money she makes it up into a brown paper parcel, which she seals with wax, turns herself repeatedly round, squints, and spits...

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Gypsy Fortune Telling

Gypsy women, as long as we have known anything of Gypsy history, have been arrant fortune-tellers. They plied fortune-telling about France and Germany as early as 1414, the year when the dusky bands were first observed in Europe, and they have never relinquished the practice. There are two words for fortune-telling in Gypsy, bocht and dukkering. Bocht is a Persian word, a modification of, or connected with, the Sanscrit bagya, which signifies 'fate.' Dukkering is the modification of a Wallaco-Sclavonian word signifying something spiritual or ghostly. In Eastern European Gypsy, the Holy Ghost is called Swentuno Ducos.

Gypsy fortune-telling is much the same everywhere, much the same in Russia as it is in Spain and in England. ...

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Halloween Gypsy Love Divinations

To find, from a list of potential suitors, whom you are most likely to marry, on Halloween night take one crab apple to represent each suitor.

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