Crossword-Solution: GIPSYDOM 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

All over the world this black and God-wanting shadow dances behind the solid Theism of "The People," affording proof that if the latter can be preserved, even in the wildest wanderings, to illustrate Holy Writ--so can gipsydom--for no apparent purpose whatever.

There is a strange goblinesque charm in Gipsydom--something of nature, and green leaves, and silent nights--but it is ever strangely commingled with the forbidden; and as among the Greeks of old with Mercury amid the singing of leafy brooks, there is a tinkling of, at least, petty larceny.

The letter I received from Groome enclosed a ragged and well-worn cutting from a forgotten anonymous _Athenæum_ article of mine, written as far back as 1877, in which I showed acquaintance with gipsydom and described the ascent of Snowdon in the company of Sinfi Lovell, which was afterwards removed bodily to ‘Aylwin.’ Here is the cutting:— “We had a striking instance of this some years ago, when crossing Snowdon from Capel Curig, one morning, with a friend.

Simpson’s 228 Inside a Gipsy Fortune-teller’s Van 236 Gipsy Fortune tellers Cooking their Evening Meal 248 Outside a Christian Gipsy’s Van 272 Four Little Gipsies sitting for the Artist 277 A Top Bed-room in a Gipsy’s Van 281 [Picture: A Gipsy beauty who can neither read nor write] Part I.—Rambles in Gipsydom.

Finally, the ordinary Dom calls himself a Dom, his wife a Domni, and the being a Dom, or the collective Gipsydom, Domnipana.