Interview With The Gypsy

“Hello, don’t you guys have dead folk??” This was Gypsy Maggie Rose’s incredulous initial reaction when she moved to Australia from Wales at the age of thirteen. Maggie grew up in a gypsy household, following the traditions of her Romany heritage and a seven generation legacy of psychics on both sides of the family. As a child, she always accepted her ability to communicate with the spiritual world. These psychic powers were “as natural as breathing and something I simply never questioned,” says Maggie. “I spend so much time on the other side, sometimes I am not sure which world I am actually in.”

Maggie is well accustomed to transcending boundaries and navigating between different worlds. While a child in Wales, Maggie alternated between maintaining a “normal” lifestyle and going to school, and the free-flowing nomadic lifestyle common to the Romany people. She faced difficulties on both sides – mothers of the non-gypsy friends would discourage them from playing with her, while some gypsies would resent her family for living in a house and having such amenities as shoes and a bed to sleep in. Full Story

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