The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-10-25 (London, England)

GERMANY. People use their quack medicines, call the Gipsy women into the stable, to exorcise their bewitched cattle, without suspecting any t-ick, although the whole is founded on deceit. So the open-hearted farmer in Seem.' and BAVARIA has recourse to the Gipsies on many war sions, making ore of them as doctors for math and bent; and constantly, in cases of enchantment, dies to Me Gipry. This circumstance happens• ofteneet among those of the common people, who rail moat against. witches and witchcraft. 'Whenever a cow does not feed kindly, something is immediately suspected, and Me Gipery woman is called, who is often so successful as to remove the complaint. She goes into the stable, orders the cow to be shown to her, remains a few minutes alone with it, after every one else is gone out: having finished her operations, she calls in the master, acquaints him with the beast's recovery. and beheld it eats heartily. Bow happens this ? Was it not a piece of enchantment, wherein the Gipsy really acted the magiciao? Certainly not. The fraud is this: When the cattle are feeding abroad, the Gipsy woman takes advantage of the keepeti absence to entice some of them with a handful of fodder to follow her; then smears them over the nose and mouth with some nastiness she has ready to the other hand. From that moment the creature !oaths all kinds of food or drink, as evtry thing smells of the nastiness. When she is called in to apply a remedy, the whole skill required is to wipe orke stsypsie had put on a day or two bcfbre. By this means the true smell is restored, and the cow being hungry, it is no wonder she should fall to greedily. From this single instance, a judgment may be formed of other cases. These are the customary transactions and occupations of Gipsies in the different counties and sratesof Europe. People must not imagine that their smiths shops are continually resounding with the hammer, or that those of other professions are so attentive to their callihgs, to provide even a daily subsistence, not to think of a comfortble maintenance. Their laziness, on the contrary, makes . . _ .. so many idle hours in the day, ~reduced to the greatest distress; l' or stealing are by far more comr and assiduous application to hunger. 'They seem only to in order the better to carry which they prepare furnish an excellent ' where there is any tt. themselves. This kind  'ince of the women, dextrous this,' the mom  monly take children main behind in the  what they can, while ber. It is generally the boar's geese and  family, but, if by from the village that keep it alive to sell time when the women generally are most called upon to try their skill in this way ; during that season many of the men remain in their huts, sending the women abroad to forage. 'I hey go about under the disguise of beggars, in a very scientific manner, and commonly carry with them a couple of children, miserably exposed to the cola and frost; one of these is led in the hand, the other tied in a cloth to the woman's back, in order to excite compassion in well disposed people. They also tell fortunes, and impose on the credulous with amulets. Beiides all this, they seldom return to their husbands without some pilfered booty. Many writers confine the thefts of Gipsies to small matters, and will not allow that they are ever guilty of violence. This is not only denied by the testimony of others, but absolutely contradicted by some recent instances. Occasionally we have more than one proof that they make no scruple to murder a traveller, or plunder cities and villages.—Grellmann'a Dirsertatiox on the Gipsies, translatedfrom the German.