ROMANY RITUAL IN ENGLAND.—The caravan and personal possessions of a gipsy woman, Mrs Harriet Bowers, who died recently at Oxford, England, being destroyed by fire in accordance with Romany custom. Mrs Bowers was the “mother” of a clan of gipsies, nearly 400 strong, who believe that the destruction of property is necessary to ensure that a dead person’s spirit shall not return. Two horses belonging to the dead woman were killed. Mrs Bowers, who was 68 years old, had a permanent roof over her head for the first time in her life when she was admitted to the Cowley Hospital, Oxford, shortly before her death.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 10
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105ROMANY RITUAL IN ENGLAND.—The caravan and personal possessions of a gipsy woman, Mrs Harriet Bowers, who died recently at Oxford, England, being destroyed by fire in accordance with Romany custom. Mrs Bowers was the “mother” of a clan of gipsies, nearly 400 strong, who believe that the destruction of property is necessary to ensure that a dead person’s spirit shall not return. Two horses belonging to the dead woman were killed. Mrs Bowers, who was 68 years old, had a permanent roof over her head for the first time in her life when she was admitted to the Cowley Hospital, Oxford, shortly before her death. Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26945, 22 January 1953, Page 10
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