In Germany a Gipsy who loses caste for any offence is forbidden for a certain time to wear green, so that _ver non semper viret_ may be truly applied to those among them who bloom too rankly.
The great love for red and yellow among the Gipsies was long ago pointed out by a German writer as a proof of Indian origin, but the truth is, I believe, that all dark people instinctively choose these hues as agreeing with their complexion.

A brunette is fond of amber, as a blonde is of light blue; and all true _kaulo_ or dark Rommany _chals_ delight in a bright yellow _pongdishler_, or neckerchief, and a red waistcoat.

The long red cloak of the old Gipsy fortune-teller is, however, truly dear to her heart; she feels as if there were luck in it--that _bak_ which is ever on Gipsy lips; for to the wanderers, whose home is the roads, and whose living is precarious, Luck becomes a real deity.

I have known two old fortune-telling sisters to expend on new red cloaks a sum which seemed to a lady friend very considerable.
I have spoken in another chapter of the deeply-seated faith of the English Gipsies in the evil eye.

Subsequent inquiry has convinced me that they believe it to be peculiar to themselves.