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: cohalyi, or "wise women," or gule
: romni, "sweet" or "charming
: women"— My mother and Great Grand
: mother who a gypsy taught her and her mother
: taught her. Cohalyi are female Chaldea or
: Sumerian Magi from Chaldea or Sumeria
: originally We Afro-romani or Kalderash
: Hungarian origins from the Mitchell family
: who also Kalderash Romanian Hungarian and
: Brazilian. We are Spanish Hungaros and
: certian women in my family like my mother
: are choicen to be Cohalyi or wise women good
: witch. She doesn't flaunt it but she does
: have powers she will use them on me from
: time to time show me who in control. It was
: a gift my Great Grandmother from Yazoo
: Mississippi Annabel Clark gave her and Her
: Mother who was Mitchell also from Yazoo
: Mississippi.
:
: Most of these witch-wives—also known in
: Hungary as cohalyi, or "wise
: women," or gule romni,
: "sweet" or "charming
: women"—are trained up from infancy by
: their mothers in medicine and magic. A great
: part of this education consists in getting
: by heart the incantations or formulas of
: which specimens will be given anon, and
: which, in common with their fairy tales,
: show intrinsic evidence of having been drawn
: at no very distant period from India, and
: probably in common with the lower or
: Shamanic religion of India from Turanian
: sources. But there is among the Hungarian
: gypsies a class of female magicians who
: stand far above their sisters of the hidden
: spell in power. These are the lace romni, or
: "good women," who draw their power
: directly from the Nivasi or Pchuvusi, the
: spirits of water and earth, or of flood and
: fell. For the Hungarian gypsies have a
: beautiful mythology of their own which at
: first sight would seem to be a composition
: of the Rosicrucian as set forth by
: Paracelsus and the Comte de GABALIS, with
: the exquisite Indo-Teutonic fairy tales of
: the Middle Ages. In fact, in some of the
: incantations used we find the Urme, or
: fairies, directly appealed to for help.
:
: With the gypsies, as among the early
: Accadians, diseases are supposed to be
: caused by evil supernatural influences. This
: is more naturally the case among people who
: lead very simple lives, and with whom
: sickness is
:
:
: p. 47
:
: not almost a natural or normal condition, as
: it is with ladies and gentlemen, or the
: inhabitants of cities, who have "always
: something the matter with them."
: Nomadic life is conducive to longevity.
: "Our grandfathers died on the
: gallows—we die from losing our teeth,"
: said an old gypsy to Doctor von WLISLOCKI,
: when asked what his age was. Therefore among
: all people who use charms and spells those
: which are devoted to cure occupy the
: principal position. However, the Hungarian
: Romany have many medicines, more or less
: mysterious, which they also apply in
: connection with the "healing
: rhymes." And as in the struggle for
: life the weakest go first to the wall, the
: remedies for the diseases of children are
: predominant.
:
: When a mother begins to suffer the pangs of
: childbirth, a fire is made before her tent,
: which is kept up till the infant is
: baptized, in order to drive away evil
: spirits. Certain women feed this fire, and
: while fanning it (fans being used for
: bellows) murmur the following rhyme:—
:
: "Oh yakh, oh yakh pçabuva,
: Pçabuva,
: Te čavéstár tu trada,
: Tu trada,
: Pçávushen te Nivashen
: Tire tçuva the traden!
: Lače Urmen ávená,
: Čaves báçtáles dena,
: Káthe hin yov báçtáles,
: Andre lime báçtáles!
: Motura te ráná,
: Te átunci but' ráná,
: Matura te ráná,
: Te átunci, but' rana,
: Me dav' andre yákherá!
: Oh yákh, oh yákh pçabuva,
: Rovel čavo: áshuna!"
:
: It may here be remarked that the
: pronunciation of all these words is the same
: as in German, with the following additions .
: Č = teh in English, or to ch in church. C =
: ch in German as in Buch. J = azs, or the
: English
:
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