Myths and Link Between Gypsies and Witches (Essay Sample)

Christopher Artunduaga
Witchcraft, Shamanism and Sorcery
6 December 2015
Myths and Customs of the Witches
Their extraordinary perfume is the leader association to spices, so sorcery goes hand in hand in each memory to gypsies. Now-a-days we romanticize witchcraft and think there is something more strangely sweet and mysterious inside the scent of cloves than in that of plants, so the attribute of inherited magic energy adds to the romance of these picturesque wanderers. Each the spices and the Romany come from the some distance East—the place of origin of divination and enchantment as of the "sons and daughters of witchcraft”. My purpose is to unveil some of these people’s customs and misunderstood selves in order to connect to generations that couldn’t be farther away in time and mind.
Some of the myths which are pinned on these mysterious people go back to prehistoric instances and they make it seem that no matter the age, their girls and women had been dabbling with the devil as if it was an instinct and enchanting the ones who surrounded them. In those times dealing with the Satan didn’t bode well for one’s health.
It is unfortunate that when people of this time saw gypsies they saw witches, elves, shamans and fortune-tellers. We may find a totally curious illustration of it within the wren. This is seemingly as humble, modest, prosaic little bird as exists, and as some distance from mystery and wickedness as an old hen. However the ornithologists of the olden time, and the myth-makers, and the gypsies who lurked and lived inside the wooded area, knew higher. Shamanism, or the sorcery that's based on exorcising or commanding spirits, exists, its professors from their main peculiar lives, or from solitude and wandering,...