Romani customs, collated from "Zoli'; words

Cutting a woman's hair - against the laws, Zoli 16. As a child, she had done so.

Speaking of the dead: not too soon after the death (especially if a violent death?) '"[T]hey would be mule soon, spirit, they did not want to be disturbed." Zoli 18.

"gadzikano" ways - Gadzikano means white majority, seehttp://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/museletters/blCZmuse106., and scroll down to the poetry section. This is as opposed to "romanipe": or gypsiness, or Gypsy society, says the article.

"The last one still alive (of Zoli's grandfather's sons) had taken gadzikano ways, which meant he was dead too." Zoli 19.

Zelfya - Zoli 20 - said to be a hanging cradle, and here is a picture of a Russian one - can't find "zelfya" - at ://www.civilization.ca/tresors/immigration/imb0500e.html. Find a modern one at http://www.hippyshopper.com/2007/01/titan_hanging_c.html