God Awful Things

Rather than strewing thoughts around various ignored blogs on the internet, I figured it was time to condense into one place that I could properly ignore. So that is the intent here.

What a Gyp, According to unreliable sources, Jesus said it was cool if they stole forever.

“The Irish Travelers say their ancestors were Gypsies at the time Jesus was in the Middle East. When Jesus was crucified by the Roman Soldiers on the cross, the Gypsies say their ancestors were there and they stole one of the spikes from the soldiers and that is why the soldiers could not nail-in the last spike in Jesus’ neck. This way he could still talk to his followers from the cross. The Gypsies say it is a story in the Bible that one Gypsy grabbed the spike and ran off. They say because of this act God and Jesus gave the Gypsies the right to steal from then on and it would not be a sin. Bible Scholars tell me they have never found this story in the Bible.
So when the Irish Travelers rip you off on a home repair they say they are doing it with the permission of God and Jesus. ”

Or maybe Jesus was a gypsie

And finally Gypsie Folk-Tales
…”Late in 1417 a band of ‘Secani’ or Tsigans, 300 in number, besides children and infants, arrived in Germany ‘from Eastern parts’ or ‘from Tartary.’ Their presence is first recorded at Luneburg; and thence they passed on to Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, and Greifswald, At their head rode a duke and a count, richly dressed, with silver belts, and leading like nobles dogs of chase; next came a motley crew afoot; and women and children brought up the rear in waggons. They bore letters of safe-conduct from princes, one of which from the Emperor Sigismund they had probably procured that same year at Lindau on Lake Constance; and they gave out that they were on a seven years’ pilgrimage, imposed by their own bishops as a penance for apostasy from the Christian faith. They encamped in the fields by night outside the city walls, and were great thieves, especially the women, ‘wherefore several were taken and slain.’ In 1418 they are heard of at Leipzig, at Frankfort-on-Main, and in Switzerland at Zurich, Basel, Berne, and Soleure: the contemporary Swiss chronicler, Conrad Justinger, speaks of them as ‘more than two hundred baptized Heathens from Egypt, pitiful, black, miserable, and unbearable on account of their thefts, for they stole all they could.’ At Augsburg they passed for exiles from ‘Lesser Egypt’; at Macon in August 1419 they practised palmistry and necromancy; and at Sisteron in Provence as ‘Saracens’ they got large rations from the terrified townsfolk. In 1420 Lord Andreas, Duke of Little Egypt, and a hundred men, women, and children, came to Deventer in the Low Countries; and the aldermen had to pay 19 florins 10 placks for their bread, beer, herrings, and straw, as well as for cleaning out the barn in which they lay. At Tournay in 1421 ‘Sir Miquiel, Prince of Latinghem in Egypt,’ received twelve gold pieces, with bread and a barrel of beer.”