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quote from Leland, will have to suffice as a sample. It 

 is a spell to cure a fever and the sufferer, going to run- 

 ning water, casts pieces of wood backward nine times 

 and says : 



" 'Shilalyi prejia, 

 " Panori me tut 'dav ! 

 " Naiii me tut kamav ; 

 " Andakode prejia, 

 " Odoy tut cuciden, 

 "Odoy tut ferinen, 

 " Odoy tut may kamen ! 

 " Mashurdalo sastyar ! ' 



' ' ' Fever go away from me, 

 " I give it water unto thee ! 

 "Unto me thou art not dear, 

 "Therefore go away from here 

 "To where they nursed thee, 

 " Where they sheltered thee, 

 " Where they love thee, 

 " Mashurdalo— he\-p ! ' " 



("Gypsy Sorcery," p. 16.) 



Mashurdalo is a forest- ogre- spirit who eats human 

 flesh, but may be incanted. Every writer on Romany 

 gives some stories or gudli in the English Gypsy diaLect. 

 There are beside some rhymes and jingles current among 

 them. 



I have myself sought for such verses but have scarcely 

 found anything. I got the two following insignificant 

 jingles from the Wells family and have often heard them 

 sing them. 



Didikai, Didikai, what shall mandi ker ? 

 Prasdid adrom with a waver mush's ram ! 

 (Half-breed, half-breed, what shall I do ? 

 Run away with another man's wife !) 

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