บท 134: Chapter 134: Luminitsa Camomescro (1811-1893 CE)

The Witch

Luminitsa Camomescro was born in August 1821 in her parent's wagon at the tiny camp of their extended family, which lay along the forest road a few miles to the west of the small village of Belotintsi, Bulgaria. Luminitsa was a Romani (or a gypsy[19] as many who are not Romani call them), and her family came from a long line of Indian mages who had migrated into Bulgaria some thousand years earlier.

Being born into a family of mages was a very good thing for Luminitsa and the Camomescro family because in those dark days the Romani were terribly persecuted and all mundane gypsies in Rumania were slaves. The Romani could own neither horse nor wagon. Though also known as the Travelers, they were forbidden to travel and all itinerant trades were closed to them. Even wearing traditional Romani clothing or speaking the Romani language was punishable by flogging or worse.