Interesting report in this morning’s Vanguardia: The man who in mid-November calls the police station of the Mossos d’Esquadra in Vic says that his 11-year old son has witnessed a kidnapping in Taradell (Osona). The report alarms the autonomous police force, which puts its incident plan into action; the description provided by the infant is…
George Borrow (1803-81), The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies in Spain (1841): El vestit del Gitano varia amb el país que habita. Tant a Rosselló com a Catalunya consisteix la seva roba generalment d’una jaqueta, una armilla, pantalons, i un faixa vermella, que cobreix una part de l’armilla; en els peus porta sandàlies de…