Gypsy Folktales From Greece

When we think of the arts in relation to Roma, we think of music and dance, performance arts that are easily accessible to the public at large. Storytelling is considered a significant art form among the Roma but it is a private one, reserved and intended for transmission strictly within their own community.

The book you hold in your hands, Gypsy Folktales from Greece, is a selection of 20 unique and vivid Romani tales, lovingly collected by sociologist-ethnologists Rita Spanouli and Giorgos Lepeniotis over the course of three decades of visits to Romani camps and settlements, and living and traveling with nomadic groups of Roma throughout mainland Greece.

, Παραμύθια των Ρομά 9786185228835 Μάρτιος 2022 158 24x17 Isabel Dempsey ,
Share

Περιεχόμενα

– Translator’s Introductory Note
– Introduction
– The Little Hedgehog and his Good Fate
– The Rosy Gypsy Girl Who Became a Princess
– Why Gypsies Never Fall in Love with Married Women
– Why the Gypsies Worship Saint George
– The Gypsy Violinist and the Enchanted Apple Tree
– The Gypsy Blacksmith who Became the King’s Viceroy
– Why Gypsies Wander the World
– The Gypsy Lad who Sold and Bought his Parents
– How the Gypsy Blacksmith Gained a Place in Heaven
– The Gypsy and the Good Wife
– How Fate sent the Violin to the Gypsies
– How the Gypsy Defeated the Demon Lamia
– Nouka, the Gypsy Girl, and the Devil’s Violin
– Yiannakis Koutsodekatris, the Lame Thirteenth Son
– The King and the Gypsy Blacksmith’s Sweet Bread
– How the Gypsy made the Sea Salty
– If Luck Doesn’t Want You the First Time, it Never Wants You!
– The Gypsy Grandmother and the Twelve Months
– The Gypsy Violinist and White Dove
– Nagia Black-Kettle, the Nereid’s Daughter