Romania's minorities - Gypsy
This is very interesting. Please click on above hyperlink to read short article.
It is true as we have a dear friend who is Indian from India; was married to a Hungarian born in Budapest, deceased. We've been aware of the lineage of these gypsies for a long time now.
Our Hungarian friend's mom was Romanian. She knew her history, back and forth..........and would often tell us of the gypsies origins....travels and crime sprees...
When I was a little girl, the gypsies would set up in the empty storefronts.
My mom would walk us past and say to us, "Don't look at them; they will put a curse on you".
Just a blast from the past. I wonder if they did? Put a curse on me?
In our town in Vermont, they haven't been around for years now, but about twenty years ago we were warned by our police that they were "getting into homes" via open side and back doors......(summertime).
That was when we'd still go for our evening hike and leave our doors unlocked and open. That's how safe it was.
The police said they were vagabond gypsies.....like the old tinkerers or whatever. Lately, our town has an issue with "panhandlers" which it never has before in the past........but it never mentioned them as gypsies. I wonder?
Probably illegal as in "profiling". How times have changed.
Actually I was just reading about gypsies in relation to the missing Maddy McCann in Portugal. Detectives are checking into some leads of gypsies and child trafficking.......adorable little blonde girl whose DNA does not match the gypsy parents............so another worry. Hope they find her biological parents. She's too young to be Maddy....but there were a lot of other blonde children found with the gypsies.
Anyway.........above article is interesting...........