DREAD GIPSY CURSE
WOMEN LIVING IN FEAR Fear has come to Norwich. Women of nil walks of life are living under the dread of a gipsy’s curse. Hordes of women gipsies encamped around the city were lately carrying out a systematic campaign of terror and intimidation against any housewife who refused to buy their wares at exorbitant prices. A wave of superstitious fear has •swept the city, because stories are being told of the effective power of the gipsies’ curses. Choosing a time when the menfolk arc away, the gipsies storm the back doors of the suburbs. A housewife at Thorpe related this amazing story: “I hoard a knock on the door. A gipsy was there and, as 1 was about to close it, she said malignantly. ‘Do not close the door on a gipsy, or you will be for ever cursed.' I shut her out, but—going to the stove I scalded my foot with a kettle of boiling water. “ Neighbours heard me scream and are now so scared that they dare not refuse the gipsies. They are being robbed right and left, because their superstition seems to rob them of will power.” Similar experiences are reported from Mile Cross and Mount Pleasant, and many curses seem to have come true. Norwich, the birthplace of George Borrow, is now frightened of the gipsies he praised so much.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 22
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