THEY ARE THE ROMANI OR THE "ROM". TRAVELERS... (THIS, ABOVE, IS A ROMANTIZED PAINTING.)
IT'S THOUGHT THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE ORIGINALLY COME FROM INDIA, WHERE THEY WERE 5000 PEOPLE GIVEN AS SLAVES TO A MAHARAJA. THEY WERE MUSICIANS AND DANCERS , --- ENTERTAINERS... THEY WERE GIVEN HOUSES AND GRAIN AND OTHER SEEDS, LIVESTOCK AND TOOLS TO GROW CROPS. BUT, APPARENTLY, AS THE LEGEND GOES, THEY DIDN'T LIKE BEING SLAVES, AND A YEAR OR SO LATER, --- THEY HAD ALL LEFT THE AREA...
ANOTHER STORY HAS IT THAT THEY ROAM BECAUSE OF A CURSE...
BY THE 1500'S THEY COULD BE FOUND IN THE CELTIC ISLES.
MANY BOOKS HAVE BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE ROM. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, YOU WON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE FINDING READING MATERIAL.
***photos of the Romani, --- over 100 years ago... Today they may look like anyone else, and they may travel, or not.
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