"...As their peculiar perfume is the chief association with spices so sorcery is allied in every memory to gypsies. And as it has not escaped many poets that there is something more strangely sweet and mysterious in the scent of cloves than in that of flowers so the attribute of inherited magic power adds to the romance of these picturesque wanderers. Both the spices and the Romany come from the far East the fatherland of divination and enchantment. The latter have been traced with tolerable accuracy if we admit their affinity with the Indian Dom and Domar back to the threshold of history or well-nigh into prehistoric times and in all ages they or their women have been engaged as if by elvish instinct in selling enchantments peddling prophecies and palmistry and dealing with the devil generally in a small retail way. As it was of old so it is to-day
Ki shan i Romani
Adoi san' i chov'hani.
Wherever gypsies go
There the witches are we know..."