Yeah, gypsies/travellers are white in the UK and Ireland. English and Irish gypsies live a gypsy lifestyle... but they're not of Roma ethnicity. They don't go to school as they see it as brainwashing and against their culture... the kids have to grow-up fast... the females stay at home to cook and clean... and they often sell people lucky trinkets and herbal remedies and potions and lucky charms... and they do fortune telling with tarot cards and crystal balls at fętes and festivals. They like to travel around and live close to nature and the moon and the stars.
I have an interesting and beautiful book about Gypsy Magick and Gypsy peoples culture written by a gypsy female from the countryside of Dorset in south-west England (where I grew-up) and I took a lot of fascination in gypsies as a child. My boyfriend is obsessed with gypsies as there's a lot of them from his neck of the woods in Lancashire, north-west England. He likes to call himself as a gypsy, although he's actually from a conventional family like myself, and he wishes he was a gypsy.
Their lifestyle appears enigmatic and enchanting... and I remember seeing beautiful hand-painted gypsy caravans in museums as a child and wishing I could live in a mysterious caravan and travel around under the moonlight and stars... but the whole romanticism and the aura of natural remedies and the spiritual freedom of gypsies isn't quite so romantic in reality:
English and Irish gypsies:
https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...dhood-Is-Short
Whenever I see houseboats in my local area of Little Venice that arrive here from all over the country... I love the charismatic and enchanting witchy names that's painted on their houseboats and there's some very interesting gypsy type folk who live in those cosy houseboats and who travel around all over the countryside.
English and Irish gypsies/travellers:
A beautiful song about gypsies and their lovely culture made by an English early gothic/pagan/folk music band.
Bookmarks