STRANGE GIPSY FUNERAL
A gipsy woman’s funeral was celebrated at Burton-on-Trent recently. Romany folk from all parts of the country assembled. Each walked solemnly round the open coffin, placed between tallies covered with wreaths in a caravan. The caravan was then burned, for the gipsies believe that no one should live in the home of a dead person. The body was buried at Rugeley.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 11
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64STRANGE GIPSY FUNERAL Otago Daily Times, Issue 22422, 17 November 1934, Page 11
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