"Yeká čunul yeká bál,
Tute e bokh náñi sál,
Ko tut čorel, the merel
Sar e bálá, čunulá,
Pal e pçuv the yov ável!
Pçuvus, adalen tute,
Sástes gráy ác mánge!""A straw, a hair!
May you never be hungry
May he who steals you die
Like the hair and the straw,
May he go to the ground
Earth, these things to thee
May a sound horse be mine!"If the animal be a mare and it is desired that she shall be with foal, they
give her oats to eat out of an apron or a gourd, and say
"Trin kánályá, trin jiuklá,
Jiánen upre pláyá!
Cábá, pçarcs hin perá!
Trin kánályá, trin jiuklá
Jiánen tele pláyá,
É çevá ándrasaváren
Yek čumut ándre çasáren,
Tre perá sik pçáreven!""Three asses, three dogs,
Go up the hill!
Eat, fill thy belly with young!
Three asses, three dogs,
Go down the hill,
They close the holes,
They put the moon in (them)
Thy belly be soon fruitful!"CATTLE AND SWINE
There is another formula for protecting and aiding cattle, which is
practised among other races besides that of the gypsies; as, for instance,
among the Slovacks of Northern Hungary. This I shall leave in the original--