[The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles G. Leland]@TWC D-Link bookThe English Gipsies and Their Language CHAPTER IX 59/68
A cut (castrated) dog or a vixen can hunt ghosts.
Yes, they chase spirits just the same as anything in the world--bite 'em, fight 'em, tear 'em--because dogs cannot be hurt by ghosts." "Dogs," I replied, "sometimes hunt men as well as ghosts." "Avo; but men can fool the juckals avree, and men too, and mullos can't." "How do they kair it ?" "If a choramengro kaums to chore a covva when the snow is apre the puvius, he jals yeck piro, palewavescro.
If you chiv tutes piros pal-o- the-waver--your kusto piro kaired bongo, jallin' with it a rikkorus, an' the waver piro straightus--your patteran'll dick as if a bongo-herroed mush had been apre the puvius.
(I jinned a mush yeckorus that had a dui chokkas kaired with the dui tachabens kaired bongo, to jal a-chorin' with.) But if you're pallered by juckals, and pet lully dantymengro adree the chokkas, it'll dukker the sunaben of the juckos. "An' if you chiv lully dantymengro where juckos kair panny, a'ter they soom it they won't jal adoi chichi no moreus, an' won't mutter in dovo tan, and you can keep it cleanus." That is, "If a thief wants to steal a thing when the snow is on the ground, he goes with one foot behind the other.
If you put your feet one behind the other--your right foot twisted, going with it to one side, and the other foot straight--your trail will look as if a crooked-legged man had been on the ground.
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