PESTERED BY GIPSIES
MONEY IN 'CURSE THREATS Gipsy women trading on superstition in Welsall, near Birmingham, and district are separating working-class housewives from hard-earned silver, victims being unable to withstand the threat of a curse. Shopkeepers, too, are being One tracer stated lately that often gipsies would not leave shop premises until they had received gifts in kind or money. A woman shopkeeper told of & gipsy who" asked for • money, wm. g wen a shilling and then demanded five shillings. This was refused,, but she ultimately, ob- . tained a cup of tea and bread and butter. Gipsies regularly station thems?ljes. in suburban. gardens, drink t«A 0 intimidated .housewives, andsit in their temporary encampments «no*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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114PESTERED BY GIPSIES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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