04-05-2013, 05:47 AM
Apparently gypsies used to be hunted for sport:
http://chgs.umn.edu/histories/victims/ro...sies2.html
"Also in the 16th century began the "gypsy hunts." Not unlike a fox hunt, the Gypsies were rounded up and hunted for sport. This savage practice was prevalent in Switzerland, in Holland up to the 18th century and reaching as far as Denmark. No crime needed to have been committed by these people in order for them to be incarcerated or hunted down like animals.
In 1589 the King of Denmark decreed that any leader of a Gypsy band was to be sentenced to death. Honors and rewards were given to those who would participate in Gypsy hunts and capture them. These hunts continued as late as the 19th century.
A great Gypsy hunt covering four districts of Jutland took place on November 11, 1835. The day brought in a bag of over 260 men, women and children.
A Rheinland landowning aristocrat is said to have entered in his list of game killed during a day's hunting:
Item: A Gypsy woman with leer sucking babe. (Kenrick 1972:46)"
http://chgs.umn.edu/histories/victims/ro...sies2.html
"Also in the 16th century began the "gypsy hunts." Not unlike a fox hunt, the Gypsies were rounded up and hunted for sport. This savage practice was prevalent in Switzerland, in Holland up to the 18th century and reaching as far as Denmark. No crime needed to have been committed by these people in order for them to be incarcerated or hunted down like animals.
In 1589 the King of Denmark decreed that any leader of a Gypsy band was to be sentenced to death. Honors and rewards were given to those who would participate in Gypsy hunts and capture them. These hunts continued as late as the 19th century.
A great Gypsy hunt covering four districts of Jutland took place on November 11, 1835. The day brought in a bag of over 260 men, women and children.
A Rheinland landowning aristocrat is said to have entered in his list of game killed during a day's hunting:
Item: A Gypsy woman with leer sucking babe. (Kenrick 1972:46)"