Show AGE OLD CUSTOMS OF ROMANY PEOPLE little change in centuries of wandering for til all ills his placid vIrtu virtues os john bull still lins hns a touch of gypsy blo blood OE 1 there are about gypsies in n england who practice the age olo old rites of tho romany people and their caravans bright and ray gay are a fai nillar feature of tile countryside recently nt at taunton Tm inton charms and aniu lets were found burled with a bobys body and a police officer tit nt the testified that it la Is it ito ilo many custom to bury charms and coins with a hotly body for good luck and farewell the gypsies havo have stranger cus toma than these nn an authority on their customs stonia cu says many tire mar bletl in it blood union A sort eort of wedding enke lg Is made of flour mixed with blood taken front from tile tho wrists of the bride and bridegroom both ot of whom out eat a piece another marriage form Is 18 that of jumping over a flowering broom plant hut in tho the most generally used rite the bridegroom knocks thrice on tho the door 0 of ida his belov eds enra earn van her father opens the lio door and tile the suitor must then produce evl bonce of ills hla suitability a halter to showie show lio possesses horses a ring to indicate money and a whip signify ing ills hla possession of a when tile tho father leads forth tho the bratle the happy couple kiss anti vow eternal faith anti tile groom kisses hisses ills bride on the for forehead 0 it C nd tin nn net act which indans devotion then ilia ho bride helps lier her to food from tile tho stewpot etow stow pot or carries fuel file to ills his caravan to signify obedience thus they are wedded not jnnny divorces take place among gypsies nowadays in III days gone by a womans comans wo mans guilt or inno conco conce was decided by a horse which was lot let loose if it was ana caught caugoll ragain without trouble it was held that tho the comans womans guilt was small email it if however it resisted capture this was taken na as a sign of very great great guilt the horse wits killed and over its ita dead body tho the man and woman vowed never to met again another form of 0 divorce was by causing blood to flow between husband and wife tills lio lie did hy by chopping bingoff goff oft tho the fourth finger 0 of ills hla left hand band lie ile preserved tho the linger finger and 1 carried it about with wn i v ha a married maln ho fie 94 firtha the s j to lila its new n when it man mail tile alca R ills fl clothes atol burled buried with him ills hla ft t bit burned mad fib aw w n 0 other either belongings ar tiro 0 CA tolice them orio or ito v allf to la allowed to tile the dead mans name ann il 1 laws jaws fire very strict are no judges or burjes clement of any ba ini ing left to tile tho old yemen onie ri |