Preface

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) GYPSY SORCERY AND FORTUNE TELLING ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS INCANTATIONS, SPECIMENS OF MEDICAL MAGIC, ANECDOTES AND TALES BY CHARLES GODFREY LELAND PRESIDENT OF THE GIPSY-LORE SOCIETY, &c., &c. COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS MDCCCXCI DEDICATION. THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MY COLLEAGUES OF THE CONGRÈS DES TRADITIONS POPULAIRES, HELD AT PARIS, JULY, 1889; AND ESPECIALLY TO THE FRENCH MEMBERS OF THAT BODY, IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR GENEROUS HOSPITALITY, AND UNFAILING KINDNESS AND COURTESY, BY CHARLES G. LELAND. CONTENTS. CHAP. PAGE