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A collection of Romany remedies and ointments handed down through the generations.

Xavier Petulengro, a British Romanichal horse trader, recorded his family’s herbal healing remedies under the pseudonym Gypsy Petulengro. Featuring remedies for sickness, ointments for animals, and advice on fishing and poaching, this volume contains traditional Romany family secrets.

The chapters featured in this volume include:

- Remedies, Embrocations, and Liniments

- Recipes; For the Kiddies

- Dog Hints

- Fishing, Poaching, and other Tricks and Recipes

- Fakes

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	29 mars 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781446548905
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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ROMANY REMEDIES AND RECIPES
ROMANY REMEDIES AND RECIPES
by
GIPSY PETULENGRO
SECOND EDITION

METHUEN & CO. LTD. LONDON
36 Essex Street W.C.2
First published
February 28th 1935
Second Edition
1935
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFACE
M Y grandfather was the old gipsy tinker Petulengro immortalized by George Borrow in The Romany Rye and Lavengro . My father, who was his seventh son, was a ‘grye-koper’ (horse-dealer) and traded Welsh and Exmoor ponies with the Hungarian and Rumanian Zingari. It was while in Rumania that he met my mother, who came from the stock of Rumanian Zingari, and it was from my mother that I acquired my knowledge of herbs and remedies, which had been handed down by her ancestors for centuries. Many Romanys have forgotten the formulas, or have neglected their uses, but I have always held on to them, possibly because I had the good fortune to be taught to read and write, while most of my relations and friends are still unable to do so. I would like to record that what little education I had was mostly due to a well-known British admiral, Admiral Sir A. K. Wilson, V.C., and to his sister, who took a great interest in me when my parents were travelling in the district in which he lived when ashore. In return for teaching him Romany words he paid an old country lady to teach me, and I received my first lessons in her humble little cottage.
You must excuse me if my grammar is not all that it should be. I have done my best to make the remedies clear, and as most of them are simple to make, and the ingredients easy to procure, I hope there will be no difficulty in making up any of the recipes. There are many useful herbs and leaves which are often grown, and always can be grown, in one’s own garden, though many folks are not aware of their value. I mention them here to draw attention to them.
Leaves of the following should be dried and stored: Ash, Blackberry, Black Currant, Camomile, Dandelion, Ground Ivy, Golden Rod, Horehound, Iceland Moss, Lobelia, Nettles, Peppermint, Plantain, Raspberry, Scabious, Rosemary, Southernwood, Sorrel, Thyme, * Violet, Sage, Wormwood, Yarrow.
Flowers of the following should also be stored: Camomile, Elder ( Sambucus nigra ), Red Clover, Hop, Marigold, and Safflower.
Also Roots of the Dandelion, Lily of the Valley, Male Fern, Marshmallow, Red Dock, Rhubarb, Solomon’s Seal.
And Barks of the Alder ( Prinos verticillatus ), Ash, Oak, Birch, Cherry, Poplar, Willow ( Salix alba ).
All the above leaves, flowers, roots, and barks should be dried and packed in either envelopes or jars, and named, ready for any emergency. This, besides being very profitable, will be found to be a very interesting pursuit.
Most of the complaints which inhabitants of certain countries are afflicted with can be cured with the herbs that grow in that country. Nearly all the herbs mentioned in this book can be collected in your own lanes, and a lot of them grow in your own gardens (as many gardeners know too well), and they all are far more valuable than most of the things one takes a lot of trouble to grow. For instance, onions or cabbages can usually be purchased in the region of 1 d . per lb., but the common nettle, dried, would cost about 3 d . per oz., or 4 s . per lb., at the herbalist’s.
Most of the medicines sold to-day at big prices under proprietary names were originally given to people in the form of Romany remedies. But astute manufacturers, having found out their real value, have commercialized them, given them new names, written and published frightening advertisements, and so induced folk to spend much money on things which they could obtain for nothing, and which are more beneficial when taken in their natural form. I have given, for example, one remedy for blood-pressure —the common stinging nettle—which (with spinach) contains all the necessary chlorophyll for softening hardened arteries. All the patent remedies for this ailment contain chlorophyll, but chlorophyll called by any other name is still chlorophyll,
There is one remedy in the book to which I would draw your especial attention, the Romany Balm , a recipe that is as old as the hills and scarcely ever fails to effect a cure of skin-complaints. A lady who had suffered for nineteen years with a terrible skin-complaint, and whose case had been given up as hopeless by her doctors, successfully treated herself with this ointment, and her friends called it a miracle.
Most of the herbs and ingredients which are printed in this book can be obtained from any herbalist (or chemist), but if in any doubt write to Mr. F. Burnett, Turner’s Hall Cottage, Harpenden, Herts, who will gladly supply you with any of them in packets price postage is., 2 d . It is advisable when making up the medicines to make only enough for a week’s supply. Usually the herbs to make one pint of medicine are in the packets mentioned above and a pint is generally 14 to 16 wineglassfuls, a week’s treatment.
I have marked with an asterisk the Violet leaf on page vi. This is the reason. An old Romany with whom I was acquainted treated a lady suffering from cancer. The lady lived for years after that and even advertised in the newspapers for my friend to thank her. I do not profess to cure cancer, but in this case it certainly saved this lady’s life, according to her own story.
During the past thirty-five years I have devoted much of my time to lecturing on ‘Old Romany Remedies and Recipes’, and as a result I have had thousands of testimonials and letters of appreciation from people in the many countries in which I have travelled. On March 17, 1934, I was invited by the B.B.C. to broadcast about the origin of the British Romanys, and during the broadcast I mentioned the fact that the gipsies seldom visited the ‘Mullah-Moosh-Engro’, as we call the doctor, and told of a few simple remedies. As a result the B.B.C. had hundreds of letters asking that I should give a further broadcast, which I did on March 30, two weeks later, in the series ‘In Town To-night’. On June 5, 1934, I was again invited to broadcast, this time about ‘The Gipsies and Derby Day’, and later I had the honour of being singled out from dozens who had broadcast to appear in every performance at Radiolympia from August 16 to 25, 1934. A little before then an article had appeared in the Sunday Express under the title of ‘Talks on the Telephone’, and as a result I had had over 2,000 letters, all asking for further gipsy remedies. I also write for that live little Lancashire journal, the Bolton Evening News , the editor having asked me to give his readers more remedies to fulfil the demand created by the success of those I had broadcast.
I hope this little book, which is designed to give the Romany remedies a rather more permanent form, will answer its purpose and be the means of giving relief or cure to many sufferers, and that the recipes (those which are not herbal), the Romany Poaching and Fishing Tricks, and the couple of little experiments to please the children, will cause you to place the volume in your bookcase to be ready at hand whether you want to catch eels or cure a complaint.
G IPSY P ETULENGRO
November 1934
* See page vii.

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