30 Gypsy Facts That Might Surprise You

We would like to share with you the top 30 fascinating facts regarding the enigmatic gipsies. Though comparatively unknown, these facts are definitely fascinating.

Fact 1

Fourteen is the optimal age for a gipsy to get married. Additionally, girls who turn 19 before being married are already viewed as elderly maids.

Fact 2

Typically, newlyweds reside with the groom’s family. As time passes, they all move out and just the youngest son and his family stay with their parents.

Fact 3

The belly dance, which is popular in Arab nations, is thought to have originated with the gipsies. But as of right now, neither this theory’s veracity nor falsity have been established.

Fact 4

Despite the popular belief that the gipsies came from India, this group actually formed as a separate ethnicity in Persia (the Eastern branch) and the Roman Empire (the Western branch).

Fact 5

Gipsy women’s customary full skirts are a sign of their semi-nomadic lifestyle. A gipsy’s woman would cut the skirt until the hem was completely torn, and then she would sew old dress fabric strips onto it.

Fact 6

Hedgehog stewed or fried is the national cuisine of European gipsies. It is reported that during the persecution of their people in Europe, Polish and Baltic Roma frequently prepared this dish while hiding in forests.

Fact 7

The more honour a woman receives and the more weight her own opinion and position carry in gipsy society, the more successfully a mother raises her children (from their own perspective).

Fact 8

There are also so-called “sea gipsies” in the world. They only sometimes come ashore to get water and other necessities for survival; otherwise, they live their whole lives on boats and rafts. Nonetheless, they are a separate ethnic group that resides in coastal regions of Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines and is unrelated to the conventional Roma people.

Fact 9

Except for Antarctica, all continents are home to gipsies. Several sources have the population of Europe alone at anywhere between 8 and 12 million.

Fact 10

Despite not having their own state, the Gipsies do have a national anthem and flag.

Fact 11

A woman cannot be in a greater position than a male in gipsy society. Consequently, no woman can go to the second floor of a two-story house when a man is on the first floor.

Fact 12

All gipsy families ought to have a son. Parents frequently adopt a boy from an orphanage if an heir does not show up for a while. The youngster may seem to be of any nationality.