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gypsies have a certain prescence in CHile...share your gypsy stories and encounters here....

I was at the casino in Vina out by the water on the sidewalk there and this woman wanted to read my palm. My friend was kind of shooing her away from me, I thought it was funny. It was my first week in Chile so I kind of stood out as a tourist I guess. He told me she was a gypsy, I wanted to hear her spiel.
Later over by the estero I saw the whole extended gypsy family hanging out, about 6 or 8 of them. Probably counting their take for the day.

they probly got your underpants off and you didnt even know it...better go count'em and see...

puelche out

Funny you mention that. As soon as she walked away I instinctively reached back and checked my wallet. That was when I started carrying it in my front pants pocket.

I had a friend that had come out of the supermarket to load up the groceries and as she was doing this some gypsys approached for the usual shakedown routine and she shooed them off politely at first but they persisted and so she spoke to them in english saying the same thing...this can be a technique to get rid of the gypsys as they usualy believe you are castina a curse on them in another language...this scares them as they don't understand the specific curse and can't or don't know what voodoo of thiers to use to counter it...this means a lot of work for them as they have to then do all of thier rituals/curses/anti-curses and cleansings so that they can be sure to get rid of your curse...in this case it wasn't a curse but just a simple polite shooing away in english...anyway...they g's get upset and go into the curse routine as she drives away...

My friend gets home and parks the car in the carport and begins to load the groceries upstairs when she begins to notice an odd odor at the base of the stairs....they have a two story house...they live on the top floor and then on the bottom is maids quarters and gardner workshop with a bathroom under the stairs.....she doesn't think about it but the smell gets worse and so later in the day she begins to track it down and narrows it down to the gardner bathroom...she opens the door to find that the walls are oozing an apshalt emulsion that smells like human excrement...extremely strong....they proceed to clean it off but the next day it just comes back...this goes on for two weeks untill they finaly just seal up the room...spoooky...

ciao, puelche out

I didn't know about this gypsy thing... So they ccast curses? Hmmm...
Well, if they ever try that on me, I'll just smile sweetly and say "And the same to you, multiplied ten times."

Gypsies...I remember been afraid of them back in the 1960 in Vina del Mar...the tale was that they stole kids to force them to beg on the streets...went back to Vina after 20 years this past December, did not see any Gypsies, but plenty of begging kids, so i guess the tale was just that...a tale to scare me to go to bed on time.

i encountered a few gypsies in my travels through the south of chile.. i got told to give em spare change in order to avoid a cursing.. hahaha.. i was only asked once and had 500pesos on me.. not bad i guess.. what did bother me about Chile was that children are used to beg in order to get money.. more often than not i just gave food to the kids rather than money..