The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars with a Vocabulary of Their Language
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THE BOOK OF VAGABONDS AND BEGGARS.
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
LIBER VAGATORUM
MARTIN LUTHER
ENGLISH BOOKS ON VAGABONDS
ANCIENT CUSTOMS OF ENGLISH BEGGARS
GERMAN ORIGIN OF TRICS PRACTISED BY ENGLISH VAGABONDS
OLD GERMAN CANT WORDS
THE BOOK OF VAGABONDS AND BEGGARS WITH A PREFACE BY MARTIN LUTHER
MARTIN LUTHER’S PREFACE.
¶ Part the First of this little Book.
Of the Bregers or Beggars
Of the Stabülers, or Bread Gatherers.
Of the Lossners, or liberated Prisoners.
Of the Klenkners, or Cripples.
Of Dobissers, or Dopfers, Church-mendicants.
Of Kammesierers, or Learned Beggars.
Of Vagrants (Vagierern), or Strollers.
Of the Grantners, or Knaves with the falling Sickness.
Of the Dutzers.
Of Schleppers, or False Begging Priests.
Of the Gickisses, or Blind Beggars.
Of the Schwanfelders, Blickschlahers, or Naked Beggars.
Of the Voppers, or Demoniacs.
Of the Dallingers, or Hangmen.
Of the Dützbetterins, or Lying-in Women.
Of the Süntvegers, or (pretended) Murderers.
Of the female Süntvegers.
Of the Bil-wearers, or (pretended) pregnant Women.
Of the Virgins (Jungfrauen), or pretended Lepers.
Of the Mümsen, or Spurious Beggars.
Of the Over-Sönzen-Goers, or pretended Noblemen and Knights.
Of the Kandierers, or pretended Mercers.
Of the Veranerins, or baptized Jewesses.
Of Christianers, Calmierers, or (pretended) Pilgrims.
Of the Seffers, or Salvers.
Of the Schweigers, or the Jaundiced.
Of the Burkhart.
Of the Platschierers, or Blind Harpers.
¶ The Second Part.
¶ THE THIRD PART OF THIS LITTLE BOOK IS THE VOCABULARY.
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