It is almost needless to point out how closely these ideas agree with those of many Hindus.

The Gipsy eats every and any thing except horseflesh.

Among themselves, while talking Rommany, they will boast of having eaten _mullo baulors_, or pigs that have died a natural death, and _hotchewitchi_, or hedgehog, as did the belle of a Gipsy party to me at Walton-on-Thames in the summer of 1872.

They can give no reason whatever for this inconsistent abstinence.

But Mr Simson in his "History of the Gipsies" has adduced a mass of curious facts, indicating a special superstitious regard for the horse among the Rommany in Scotland, and identifying it with certain customs in India.