I may add that my own communications on the subject of the _jettatura_, and the proper means of averting it by means of crab's claws, horns, and the usual sign of the fore and little finger, were received by a Gipsy auditor with great faith and interest.
To show, teach, or learn, is expressed in Gipsy by the word _sikker_, _sig_, or _seek_.

The reader may not be aware that the Sikhs of India derive their name from the same root, as appears from the following extract from Dr Paspati's _etudes_: "_Sikava_, v.prim.1 cl.

1 conj.
part, siklo', montrer, apprendre.

Sanskrit, s'iks', to learn, to acquire science; siksaka, adj., a learner, a teacher.

Hindustani, seek'hna, v.a., to learn, to acquire; seek'h, s.f., admonition." I next inquired why they were called Seeks, and they told me it was a word borrowed from one of the commandments of their founder, which signifies 'learn thou,' and that it was adopted to distinguish the sect soon after he disappeared.