The gypsylorist as occultist: anti-gypsy stereotypes and the entanglement of esotericism and scholarship in Charles Godfrey Leland’s work on ‘gypsy magic’
Magic and fortune-telling have been standard elements in stereotypes about Europe’s Romani minorities since the fifteenth century. These stereotypes produced two mutually contradictory images of the Roma: That they possess real occult powers, and that they are frauds. Both images were perpetuated by...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2024
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Religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 2, Pages: 224–251 |
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Gypsy Lore Society
B Gypsylorism B Esotericism B Shamanism B Magic B history of folklore B The Roma B Charles Godfrey Leland |
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