A Roma family travelling (1837 print)

Many fictional depictions of the Romani emphasize their supposed mystical powers. Romani often appear in fiction as nomads or a sort of supernatural Deus ex machina. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Romani people (as a noun, singular Rom, plural Roma; sometimes Rrom, Rroma) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... // The phrase deus ex machina (literally god out of a machine) describes an unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot (e. ...

Literary representations include:

• Walter Scott's novel Guy Mannering
• George Borrow's novel Lavengro
• Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
• Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Speckled Band
• Miguel de Cervantes' novel La Gitanilla
• Georges Bizet's opera Carmen
• Prosper Mérimée's short story "Carmen"
• Ana Castillo's novel Peel My Love Like an Onion
• Dracula by Bram Stoker features a group of Romanies working for the Count.
• Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude
• The Lyre of Orpheus and The Rebel Angels by Robertson Davies features major characters who maintain Romani traditions, including the care and repair of musical instruments, in modern Canada.
• Stephen King's novel Thinner includes the classic plot device of the Romani curse. It was also made into a movie.
• Romani appear in several short stories by the great French writer Guy de Maupassant.
• Canadian contemporary fantasy author Charles de Lint's novel Mulengro presents a portrayal of the Romani and their cultural myths.

Rumer Godden's children's book 'The Diddakoi' (also published as Gypsy Girl, 1972}, winner of the Whitbread Award. Adapted for television by the BBC as Kizzy. Raeburns portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822. ... Guy Mannering is a novel by Sir Walter Scott published anonymously in 1815. ... George Borrow George Henry Borrow (1803-1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. ... Victor-Marie Hugo (pronounced in French) (26 February 1802 — 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights campaigner, and perhaps the most influential exponent of the Romantic movement in France. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative, typically in prose. ... The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French, Notre-Dame de Paris) was a novel first published in 1831 by the French literary giant Victor Hugo. ... Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859–7 July 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ... Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (IPA: in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 – April 23, 1616) was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. ... The Bandits is a Grand ballet in 2 acts/5 scenes with prologue, with choreography was by Marius Petipa, and the music by Léon Minkus. ... Georges Bizet Georges Bizet (October 25, 1838 – June 3, 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the romantic era. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... Poster from the 1875 premiere of Carmen Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. ... Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (September 28, 1803–September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. ... Ana Castillo signing a copy of Massacre of the Dreamers, May 25, 2006 Ana Castillo (born 1953) is a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist. ... Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. ... Abraham Bram Stoker (November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912) was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential horror novel Dracula. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that was first published in Spanish in 1967 (Buenos Aires: Sudamericana), with an English translation by Gregory Rabassa released in 1970 (New York: Harper and... The Lyre of Orpheus, published in 1988, is the last of the three connected novels of the Cornish Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. ... The Rebel Angels is one of Canadian author Robertson Davies most noted novels, after his Deptford Trilogy. ... William Robertson Davies, CC, FRSC, FRSL (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... Thinner is a 1984 novel by Stephen King about an obese lawyer who experiences a dramatic and ultimately dangerous weight loss as a result of a Gypsys curse. ... Guy de Maupassant. ... Contemporary fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, also known as modern-day fantasy, or indigenous fantasy. ... Charles de Lint (born December 22, 1951) is a Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician. ... Margaret Rumer Godden (December 10, 1907–November 8, 1998), was an English author of over 60 books, under the name of Rumer Godden. ...

• Montoyas y Tarantos by Saura.

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• The James Bond novel (and movie) From Russia with Love set in a gypsy encampment in Turkey, features a traditional fight to the death between two gypsy girls vying for the affection of the same man.
• The novel For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway featured a Rom named Rafael.
• The The Adventures of Tintin comic book The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé features several Romani characters and a few Romani words. This graphic novel is very sympathetic to the Romani characters.
• A Romani character and references to Romani appear in the Otherland series of science fiction books by Tad Williams. They appear in part as nomads who disregard the borders of an advanced virtual reality cyberspace.

Romani in other media include: Flemings image of James Bond; commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition From Russia with Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway. ... Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... The main characters and others from The Castafiore Emerald, one of the later books The Adventures of Tintin (French: ) is a series of Belgian comic books created by Belgian artist Hergé, the pen name of Georges Remi (1907–1983). ... The Castafiore Emerald (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) is one of a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring young reporter Tintin as a hero. ... Georges Remi (May 22, 1907 – March 3, 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. ... Romani (or Romany) relates to: The Roma people, sometimes referred to as Gypsies. Romani language, the language of the Roma. ... Trade paperback of Will Eisners A Contract with God (1978), often mistakenly cited as the first graphic novel. ... Otherland is a four-book science fiction epic by Tad Williams. ... Robert Paul Tad Williams (born March 14, 1957) is the author of several fantasy and science fiction novels, including Tailchasers Song, the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn series, the Otherland series, and The War of the Flowers. ...

• Marlene Dietrich stars in Golden Earrings (1947) as a Rom whose clan aids British agent Ray Milland escape from the Nazis during World War II.
• The Chilean telenovela Romané features the life of the Romani in the north of Chile.
• Serbian director Emir Kusturica often used the Romani community as basis of his films.
• Gadjo dilo written and directed by Tony Gatlif. Stéphane, a young French man from Paris, travels to Romania. He is looking for the singer Nora Luca, he had heard on cassette, and whom his father had heard all the time before his death.
• Noa, of the movie Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, is a Roma whom the main character befriends. She is persecuted because of her ethnic identity and clairvoyance abilities.
• Roma characters are frequently depicted in werewolf films, including Maleva the fortuneteller (Maria Ouspenskaya) in The Wolf Man and the Roma clan of female werewolves in Cry of the Werewolf.
• Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy features a nomadic race called the Gyptians. Gyptians are roughly the equivalent of Gypsies in our universe, with the exception that they use narrowboats in place of caravans. Throughout the books they are portrayed as good and kindly people.
• Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series of fantasy novels includes the Tsingani, based on the Roma.
• In the 2006 film Borat, the main character Borat Sagdiyev claims to have been a "gypsy hunter" at one point back in his home country, Khazakstan. He also wears a vial of gypsy tears around his neck, to protect himself from AIDS.
• In 2002 the WB television series Charmed aired the episode "The Eyes Have It" which explained Gypsies to be distant relatives to modern day witches. Much like the star witches in the series Gypsies possess supernatural powers and pass down family Books of Shadows.
• On the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gypsies place a curse on the vampire Angelus to punish him for the murder of one of their tribe, by restoring his human soul (and by extension, his conscience) and forcing him to feel guilt for his crimes.
• The videogame Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King features Roma characters Kalderasha, named after the Kalderash, and his daughter Valentina.
• The Robert Duvall film Angelo My Love.
• In The Andy Griffith Show, episode 183 in the sixth season is titled "The Gypsies". A family of Gypsies (one of whom is played by Jamie Farr) places a curse on the town of Mayberry.
• In the Star Wars New Jedi Order series of books, the Ryn race are inspired by the Roma.
• A 2007 episode of the television series House features a Rom patient and family.
• In Train de Vie, a group of fleeing Jews meet up with a large group of Roma.
• Several of Emir Kusturica's movies are about Roma. For instance, Time of the Gypsies and Black Cat, White Cat.
• The FX network's television series, The Riches, follows the life of a Gypsy family that assumes the identity of an upper-class American family.
• In the Horror Role-Playing Game Vampire:The Masquerade, the Ravnos clan has Rom roots.
• Meggan of the Marvel comics superhero team Excalibur was born to a band of Roma wandering through England. She was expelled when they saw that she was a shapeshifter, and believed her to be a demon.
• In the anime Cowboy Bebop, the character Faye Valentine claims to be one of the Roma people, though this is later dispelled through her own personal flashbacks, and video of Faye as a child where she is shown as being from a very wealthy family. Also, her time in cryogenic stasis wiped out much of Faye's childhood memory. Her very name was given to her by the doctors who woke her from her sleep.