a gypsy story 001

Here is a Slovensko gypsy describing the Hrvatsko gypsies: "He comes from Novo Mesto. He is Braidic. He has eaten many cats. Dogs and cats. Taboo gypsy, I won't drink coffee near him. His mother ate cats, dogs. He comes from Novo Mesto Braidic. They really like it. They've left eating pork and they eat dogs." For contrast, in Kocevo, "if you talk of dogs in Kocevo, the gypsies will kill you. In Kocevo you mustn't say that gypsies eat dogs; otherwise they will kill you. Because they don't want to hear that."

A female cousin of Mile married a gypsy from Novo Mesto. She didn't want to eat dogs. She didn't want to, she didn't want to. Nothing, she didn't want to hear of it, this girl. Then they killed a dog and they ate the dog's intestines everyday. Women wept and despaired. Every day they ate the dog's intestines, she told me. I know they were eating the intestines. They tied her to a tree, isn't it true? Because she didn't want to hear about eating dogs. They put dog meat in their mouths, and intestines, they put intestines in their mouths, I know it. May I eat my dead if it isn't true that they ate the intestines. Ask Mile-the intestines of dogs. Jane! They had dog guts in their mouths.