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Memories of a Gypsy

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Ways of Matchvaya in Brazil
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by Victor Vishnevsky

I said in Brazil because I know the ways of the Brazilian Matchvaya. I live with them in the same city of San Paulo for more then 45 years, but there are Khoraha, who are very similar to Matchvaya, that mostly live in Chile, Santiago....
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007
To Believe
By @ 12:26 PM :: 1891 Views :: 3 Comments :: :: Memories of a Gypsy
by Victor Vishnevsky

To believe, is not easy because to believe or have faith is a very powerful thing! I personally believe that this comes from a divine force.....
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Monday, June 04, 2007
The Ways of the Kalderasha Tribe
By @ 12:03 PM :: 2303 Views :: 15 Comments :: :: Memories of a Gypsy
by Victor Vishnevsky

In their tribe whenever a father gives his daughter away to get married it is the utmost pride of the father is to give away his daughter when she is a virgin! This tribe has always made transactions amongst themselves about the price of the bride....
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Friday, June 01, 2007
We the Lovara & Our Ways!
By @ 4:31 PM :: 1031 Views :: 5 Comments :: :: Memories of a Gypsy
by Victor Vishnevsky

For instance, we never ask for money or any materiel things for our daughters from the father of the groom, not that I remember. Of course we prefer to give our daughters to who she really loves, for the better or the worst! But naturally we prefer to give our daughters within our clan, and good families if possible, but this depends entirely on our daughter....
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Monday, May 28, 2007
The Grandfather
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by Victor Vishnevsky

There was a Gipsy family, a man, his wife, his ten year old son and the mans father. He lived with his son and was very old, almost disabled. The wife of this old mans son was a woman that had a very bad character, for short she was sick and tired to take care of her husbands father.....
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Monday, May 21, 2007
The Cunning Snake
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by Victor Vishnevsky

One Gypsy clan met another clan at a forest; they were close relatives so as usual they had a feast of the event. In the first clan, there was a young man that was said to posses supernatural powers, he was in his twenties and his clan had a certain fear of him because he used to go in the forest alone for days then he would come back with a lot of money and give parties at will....
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Friday, May 18, 2007
The Daughter & The Officer
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by Victor Vishnevsky

I want my reader to know that a century or so ago our Gypsies in Russia not all were in commercial business, but a good part of them were in show business. This story that I am about to relate concerns these show people! ....
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
The Half Burned Log
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by Victor Vishnevsky

This story began somewhere in Russia. There was a married couple and they were about to have a child, but her husband had an affair with another woman who was known to be a good medium, so this medium was jealous about the situation and decided to put a curse on the baby that is about to be born...
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
The Supernatural Warning
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by Victor Vishnevsky

One our Gypsy men who has or had a Gypsy wife, one night his wife saw a dream, and in that dream her dead mother said to her “Daughter, tomorrow do not let your husband out of the house, because something bad may happen to him!” ....
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The Practical Joker
By @ 10:32 AM :: 703 Views :: 2 Comments :: :: Memories of a Gypsy
by Victor Vishnevsky

This story is about a Gypsy man of about 60 years old. It was known throughout Shanghai that he was afraid of dead bodies, even when his brother died he did not go to see him, much less go to the cemetery to say his last goodbye to his dead brother, since then he never ventured at night alone, but this poor man was also lame on one of his legs, only God knows why! ...
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