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** Wanda Maximoff[=/=]ComicBook/ScarletWitch, one of Marvel's preeminent magic users, is a Romani woman raised in the fictional Wundagore Mountain alongside her [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} twin brother]][[note]]who is not as strongly tied to magic as she is, however[[/note]]. It turns out that her significant magical power is in part due to an elder god in the mountain imparting some of his power onto her. Volume 2 later explains that the "Scarlet Witch" title and powers are passed down through Wanda's family, so there is a definite undercurrent of magic in the tribe's history.
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* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Thinner}}'' the main character has the titular curse placed on him by a Romani woman's tribe after he escapes justice for running over and killing her.
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* In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's collection of 19th century Bavarian folklore, "Gypsies" (''"Zigeuner"'') are, as a rule, skilled in magic. Their considerable magical abilities are manifested in many areas:
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** Gypsies have many magic skills that help them to trick people. They can make themselves {{invisib|ility}}le and pacify watchdogs. They pay with magic money which later dissolves into thin air, or which magically returns to them (possibly taking some of your own money with it). Most magically, they can "conjure chickens out of their scoop".
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** Gypsies have many magic skills that [[RoguishRomani help them to trick people. people.]] They can make themselves {{invisib|ility}}le and pacify watchdogs. They pay with magic money which later dissolves into thin air, or which magically returns to them (possibly taking some of your own money with it). Most magically, they can "conjure chickens out of their scoop".
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* In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's collection of 19th century Bavarian folklore, "Gypsies" (''"Zigeuner"'') are, as a rule, skilled in magic. Their considerable magical abilities are manifested in many areas:
** Gypsies have many magic skills that help them to trick people. They can make themselves {{invisib|ility}}le and pacify watchdogs. They pay with magic money which later dissolves into thin air, or which magically returns to them (possibly taking some of your own money with it). Most magically, they can "conjure chickens out of their scoop".
** Gypsies have supernatural ways of knowing things, even the future. Once they enter a house, they know everything which is in the house. Gypsy women especially can see the future. A farmer who has begun a big building project is told by a Gypsy that he won't finish what he started; the man dies before the building is completed.
** Gypsies are especially good at magically banishing and controlling fire. A recurring tale is that a Gypsy band lodging in a barn makes a fire so big the flames touch the hay on the hayloft or the rafters of the roof, and yet nothing ever catches fire. Another is that Gypsies can clean old barns or buildings from cobwebs by simply burning the webs with a candle or torch; whenever the building itself is about to catch fire, they command the fire to stop by calling "hoy, hoy!" As a demonstration of their skill, they can set fire to a single stem of straw of a whole bundle of straw; the stem burns completely, but the bundle does not catch fire. They can also hold fire to a sheaf of ripe corn so that the stems burn but the grain falls out unburnt.
** Though Gypsy are feared for their [[GypsyCurse power to curse]], they also have the power to bless and will frequently cast spells that protect people who have treated them well from fire, disease, or animal pests. A certain farmer was promised by a Gypsy that his farm would never be damaged by fire for twenty generations. On another farm there are no sparrows, because Gypsies banished them as a thank-you to the farmer. Buildings where Gypsies have lodged often become permanently immune to fire; when a certain village burnt to the ground, the only building left standing was a barn where Gypsies had lodged. Another house that had been immunized against fire by Gypsies suffered no damage when the neighbouring house burnt down, even though the houses were directly connected to each other. Gypsies may also gift magical artifact. One man received a magical rifle; whenever the man shot at a tree or a bush, he would hit a bird or a hare.
** Gypsies are also good at banishing and exorcising ghosts. A legend concerns a [[HauntedHouse house haunted by a ghost]] so much that nobody dares to stay in it alone. A Gypsy woman offers to get rid of the ghost and stays in the house alone. The ghost appears and leads her to a pot full of money hidden in the kitchen stove. The ghost never comes back and the Gypsy keeps the money as her reward.
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* In Creator/FranzXaverVonSchonwerth's collection of 19th century Bavarian folklore, "Gypsies" (''"Zigeuner"'') are, as a rule, skilled in magic. Their considerable magical abilities are manifested in many areas:
** Gypsies have many magic skills that help them to trick people. They can make themselves {{invisib|ility}}le and pacify watchdogs. They pay with magic money which later dissolves into thin air, or which magically returns to them (possibly taking some of your own money with it). Most magically, they can "conjure chickens out of their scoop".
** Gypsies have supernatural ways of knowing things, even the future. Once they enter a house, they know everything which is in the house. Gypsy women especially can see the future. A farmer who has begun a big building project is told by a Gypsy that he won't finish what he started; the man dies before the building is completed.
** Gypsies are especially good at magically banishing and controlling fire. A recurring tale is that a Gypsy band lodging in a barn makes a fire so big the flames touch the hay on the hayloft or the rafters of the roof, and yet nothing ever catches fire. Another is that Gypsies can clean old barns or buildings from cobwebs by simply burning the webs with a candle or torch; whenever the building itself is about to catch fire, they command the fire to stop by calling "hoy, hoy!" As a demonstration of their skill, they can set fire to a single stem of straw of a whole bundle of straw; the stem burns completely, but the bundle does not catch fire. They can also hold fire to a sheaf of ripe corn so that the stems burn but the grain falls out unburnt.
** Though Gypsy are feared for their [[GypsyCurse power to curse]], they also have the power to bless and will frequently cast spells that protect people who have treated them well from fire, disease, or animal pests. A certain farmer was promised by a Gypsy that his farm would never be damaged by fire for twenty generations. On another farm there are no sparrows, because Gypsies banished them as a thank-you to the farmer. Buildings where Gypsies have lodged often become permanently immune to fire; when a certain village burnt to the ground, the only building left standing was a barn where Gypsies had lodged. Another house that had been immunized against fire by Gypsies suffered no damage when the neighbouring house burnt down, even though the houses were directly connected to each other. Gypsies may also gift magical artifact. One man received a magical rifle; whenever the man shot at a tree or a bush, he would hit a bird or a hare.
** Gypsies are also good at banishing and exorcising ghosts. A legend concerns a [[HauntedHouse house haunted by a ghost]] so much that nobody dares to stay in it alone. A Gypsy woman offers to get rid of the ghost and stays in the house alone. The ghost appears and leads her to a pot full of money hidden in the kitchen stove. The ghost never comes back and the Gypsy keeps the money as her reward.
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* ''WebOriginal/CatGhost'': Elon and her mentor Malone traveled around Colonial America in a wagon, all the while practicing witch-craft. Elon's presence in Gideon, Beth, and Naarah's town brought fears of Romani activity along with it.
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* ''WebOriginal/CatGhost'': ''ARG/CatGhost'': Elon and her mentor Malone traveled around Colonial America in a wagon, all the while practicing witch-craft. Elon's presence in Gideon, Beth, and Naarah's town brought fears of Romani activity along with it.
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* ''Literature/{{Holes}}'': Madame Zeroni has the look and accent of a Romani, and she curses the Yelnats family with bad luck after Elya Yelnats fails to uphold his end of a bargain with her. [[spoiler:Stanley breaks the curse by unknowingly fulfilling the same bargain with Zeroni's descendant Hector, aka "Zero".]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': I "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E18TheHonking The Honking]]", Bender is diagnosed as a Werecar victim by a robot booth shaped like a Romani Fortune Teller.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Madame Xanadu was a [[ConArtist charlatan]] conning tourists out of their money with cheap tricks from her shop on Bourbon Street. An encounter with Kent Nelson made her develop her own mystical abilities, and she expanded her shop to an important occultist hub.
* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Madame Xanadu was a [[ConArtist charlatan]] conning tourists out of their money with cheap tricks from her shop on Bourbon Street. An encounter with Kent Nelson made her develop her own mystical abilities, and she expanded her shop to an important occultist hub.
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* In''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', Madame Xanadu was a [[ConArtist [[ConMan charlatan]] conning tourists out of their money with cheap tricks from her shop on Bourbon Street. An encounter with Kent Nelson [[NotSoPhonyPsychic made her develop her own mystical abilities, abilities]], and she expanded her shop to an important occultist hub.
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* ''Webcomic/DavyJonesDayOff'': Madam Moranna is a stereotypical Romani FortuneTeller who clearly recognizes Wheelback as a damned soul of the ''Flying Dutchman'' and gives him a potion that can [[HumanityEnsues turn him human]].
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* In the ClipShow finale of ''Film/TheNewAdventuresOfTarzan'', Tarzan hosts a "gypsy party" at Greystoke Mansion, and a "gypsy fortune teller" delivers the recap by showing highlights in her crystal ball. It's Ula Vale, in costume.
* ''Film/SonOfDracula'': Played straight by Queen Zimba, a mystic who lives on the Dark Oaks grounds. She tries to warn Katherine that her plans will lead to evil consequences. The Count hears this, leading to Queen Zimba becoming the film's first victim.
* ''Film/SonOfDracula'': Played straight by Queen Zimba, a mystic who lives on the Dark Oaks grounds. She tries to warn Katherine that her plans will lead to evil consequences. The Count hears this, leading to Queen Zimba becoming the film's first victim.
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* ''Literature/EndlessNight'': Mrs. Lee, the creepy Romani woman who makes psychic predictions of death and despair if Michael and Ellie remain at Gipsy's Acre. Partially subverted with The Reveal that Michael was paying her to scare Ellie, but her initial prediction that Michael would be wise to leave the area forever was correct.
* In ''Literature/TheGospelOfEvil'', a Gypsy seer foresaw Marie's future... at the cost of her own.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', many of the "Gypsies" have psionic abilities, which would appear to be magic to those unfamiliar with psionics.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'': Parodied in "[[Recap/FreakazoidSeason1Episode12 House of freakazoid]]" with an {{Expy}} of Maleva, Maria Ouspenskaya's character in ''Film/TheWolfMan1941''. She appears briefly, making a reference to the movie's "Even a man who is pure at heart" poem and then asking for car fare.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': I "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E18TheHonking The Honking]]", Bender is diagnosed as a Werecar victim by a robot booth shaped like a Romani Fortune Teller.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': I "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E18TheHonking The Honking]]", Bender is diagnosed as a Werecar victim by a robot booth shaped like a Romani Fortune Teller.
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* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Tarot of the Hellions is said to have Romani heritage and has the powers of being able to foresee the events of her own future or the futures of other people, due to a combination of her mutant powers and the use of her tarot cards, and materializing and animating tangible images of the 2-D avatars/images on her tarot cards.
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* Franchise/TheDCU:
** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (the heroes' primary magic user) is of Jewish/Romani descent.
** Cindy Reynolds of the ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' has [[MasterOfIllusion illusion-casting]] powers and is of Romani descent. She invokes this with her superhero name, Gypsy.
** Comicbook/MadameXanadu is a 'good witch' who'd help people out with their supernatural difficulties. Seen as first as a FortuneTeller, later is revealed she was [[Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake Nimue]] and the sister of Morgana Le Fay, being an important character for all DC's magical universe.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Zenna Persik is a "gypsy" woman whose family was almost entirely wiped out by the Nazis and who uses her magic to track and kill Nazis who escaped justice. She also uses it to attack superheroes for no apparent reason.
** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (the heroes' primary magic user) is of Jewish/Romani descent.
** Cindy Reynolds of the ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' has [[MasterOfIllusion illusion-casting]] powers and is of Romani descent. She invokes this with her superhero name, Gypsy.
** Comicbook/MadameXanadu is a 'good witch' who'd help people out with their supernatural difficulties. Seen as first as a FortuneTeller, later is revealed she was [[Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake Nimue]] and the sister of Morgana Le Fay, being an important character for all DC's magical universe.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Zenna Persik is a "gypsy" woman whose family was almost entirely wiped out by the Nazis and who uses her magic to track and kill Nazis who escaped justice. She also uses it to attack superheroes for no apparent reason.
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** Wanda Maximoff[=/=]ComicBook/ScarletWitch, one of Marvel's preeminent magic users, is a Romani woman raised in the fictional Wundagore Mountain alongside her [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} twin brother]][[note]]who is not as strongly tied to magic as she is, however[[/note]]. It turns out that her significant magical power is in part due to an elder god in the mountain imparting some of his power onto her. Volume 2 later explains that the "Scarlet Witch" title and powers are passed down through Wanda's family, so there is a definite undercurrent of magic in the tribe's history.
* ''ComicBook/NewMutants'': Tarot of the Hellions is said to have Romani heritage and has the powers of being able to foresee the events of her own future or the futures of other people, due to a combination of her mutant powers and the use of her tarot cards, and materializing and animating tangible images of the 2-D avatars/images on her tarot cards.
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** Comicbook/MadameXanadu is a 'good witch' who'd help people out with their supernatural difficulties. Seen as first as a FortuneTeller, later is revealed she was [[Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake Nimue]] and the sister of Morgana Le Fay, being an important character for all DC's magical universe.
** Cindy Reynolds of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica has [[MasterOfIllusion illusion-casting]] powers and is of Romani descent. She invokes this with her superhero name, Gypsy.
** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (the heroes' primary magic user) is of Jewish/Romani descent.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Zenna Persik is a "gypsy" woman whose family was almost entirely wiped out by the Nazis and who uses her magic to track and kill Nazis who escaped justice. She also uses it to attack superheroes for no apparent reason.
** Comicbook/MadameXanadu is a 'good witch' who'd help people out with their supernatural difficulties. Seen as first as a FortuneTeller, later is revealed she was [[Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake Nimue]] and the sister of Morgana Le Fay, being an important character for all DC's magical universe.
** Cindy Reynolds of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica has [[MasterOfIllusion illusion-casting]] powers and is of Romani descent. She invokes this with her superhero name, Gypsy.
** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (the heroes' primary magic user) is of Jewish/Romani descent.
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Zenna Persik is a "gypsy" woman whose family was almost entirely wiped out by the Nazis and who uses her magic to track and kill Nazis who escaped justice. She also uses it to attack superheroes for no apparent reason.
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** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (the heroes' primary
** ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Zenna Persik is a "gypsy" woman whose family was almost entirely wiped out by
* In ''WebVideo/AnastasiaQuasimodoWeHitAWall'', Lady Tremaine falsely accuses her husband's [[TheMistress mistress]] Esmeralda of putting a GypsyCurse on her children. This leads to [[spoiler:Esmeralda being [[BurnTheWitch executed]]]]. Lady Tremaine's kids [[TheRunaway run away]] due to the shame and shock.
* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6020438/1/A-Different-Future A Different Future]] has Harry being adopted by a family of wizarding Gypsies when the Dursleys try to abandon him on the steps of a church. They give him an potion to make him look more like one of the family and the name Alex, pretending that he is the twin brother of their daughter Beth. The author has clearly done some research on the Romani and shows them in a good light, and it's mentioned that Harry's adoptive grandparents survived UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
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* In ''WebVideo/AnastasiaQuasimodoWeHitAWall'', Lady Tremaine falsely accuses her husband's [[TheMistress mistress]] Esmeralda of putting a GypsyCurse on her children. This leads to [[spoiler:Esmeralda being [[BurnTheWitch executed]]]]. Lady Tremaine's kids [[TheRunaway run away]] due to the shame and shock.
* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6020438/1/A-Different-Future A Different Future]] has Harry being adopted by a family of wizarding Gypsies when the Dursleys try to abandon him on the steps of a church. They give him an potion to make him look more like one of the family and the name Alex, pretending that he is the twin brother of their daughter Beth. The author has clearly done some research on the Romani and shows them in a good light, and it's mentioned that Harry's adoptive grandparents survived UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
* The description of ''Silent Dreamer'' by Creator/TheNight130 describes the roma Esmeralda as either a witch or a demon.
* The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6020438/1/A-Different-Future A Different Future]] has Harry being adopted by a family of wizarding Gypsies when the Dursleys try to abandon him on the steps of a church. They give him an potion to make him look more like one of the family and the name Alex, pretending that he is the twin brother of their daughter Beth. The author has clearly done some research on the Romani and shows them in a good light, and it's mentioned that Harry's adoptive grandparents survived UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', the Romanis are associated with fortune-telling. Esmeralda uses some mundane magic tricks as a part of her acts, such as using puffs of smoke to disappear. After she turns away Frollo's advances, he accuses her of seducing him with actual witchcraft and [[BurnTheWitch tries to have her burned]].
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* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': A Romani fortune teller visits the estate at one point, and Jane has her fortune told. The fortune teller winds up being Rochester in disguise.
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* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': The old Gypsy woman whom Kaylana consults with works as a fortune teller and uses a {{crystal ball}} to see the party's futures (admittedly vaguely).
* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': The old Gypsy woman whom Kaylana consults with works as a fortune teller and uses a {{crystal ball}} to see the party's futures (admittedly vaguely).
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* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Duncan flashes back to a fling he had with a young Romani woman. She gets angry with him and storms out for no apparent reason, though he soon get an explanation... she accidentally read his palm, which revealed that he would love many women, but marry none. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Believing he was stringing her along when he did fully intend to marry her, her family forces Duncan to leave.]] Remembering this, Duncan asks Tessa, his current lover, to marry him. [[spoiler:[[YouCantFightFate She doesn't]] [[CartwrightCurse survive the episode.]]]]
* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': Downplayed. [[LovableAlphaBitch Cheryl Blossom's]] grandmother Rose is revealed to be of Romani descent, and at point does a traditional ritual over Polly, who is pregnant with Jason's Blossom's child, with which she predicts Polly will give birth to twins. Alice Cooper denounces it as occultism, but everyone else treats it as just a tradition. She does turn out to be right, however, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane twins are quite common in the Blossom line]].
* ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': Downplayed. [[LovableAlphaBitch Cheryl Blossom's]] grandmother Rose is revealed to be of Romani descent, and at point does a traditional ritual over Polly, who is pregnant with Jason's Blossom's child, with which she predicts Polly will give birth to twins. Alice Cooper denounces it as occultism, but everyone else treats it as just a tradition. She does turn out to be right, however, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane twins are quite common in the Blossom line]].
* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'': Duncan flashes back to a fling he had with a young Romani woman. She gets angry with him and storms out for no apparent reason, though he soon get an explanation... she accidentally read his palm, which revealed that he would love many women, but marry none. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Believing he was stringing her along when he did fully intend to marry her, her family forces Duncan to leave.]] Remembering this, Duncan asks Tessa, his current lover, to marry him. [[spoiler:[[YouCantFightFate She doesn't]] [[CartwrightCurse survive the episode.]]]]
* ''Series/{{Janus}}''. Deconstructed in a court case where a Romani woman is being prosecuted for fraud, and her magic powers are just a con game she runs on superstitious victims.
* ''Series/{{Janus}}''. Deconstructed in a court case where a Romani woman is being prosecuted for fraud, and her magic powers are just a con game she runs on superstitious victims.
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* ''Series/{{Janus}}''. Deconstructed in a court case where a ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': Downplayed. [[LovableAlphaBitch Cheryl Blossom's]] grandmother Rose is revealed to be of Romani woman is being prosecuted for fraud, descent, and her magic powers are at point does a traditional ritual over Polly, who is pregnant with Jason's Blossom's child, with which she predicts Polly will give birth to twins. Alice Cooper denounces it as occultism, but everyone else treats it as just a con game she runs on superstitious victims.tradition. She does turn out to be right, however, [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane twins are quite common in the Blossom line]].
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': "Grandma Mara" the elderly FortuneTeller and charm saleswoman deliberately dresses like a Roma stereotype when she sets up her tent. She's actually a [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] who {{Exploit|edTrope}}s the stereotype to impress her marks, whom she manipulates with mind-reading and [[WindsOfDestinyChange Fate]] magic.
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* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': "Grandma Mara" the elderly FortuneTeller and charm saleswoman deliberately dresses like a Roma stereotype when she sets up her tent. She's actually a [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] who {{Exploit|edTrope}}s the stereotype to impress her marks, whom she manipulates with mind-reading and [[WindsOfDestinyChange Fate]] magic.
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* Rose from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' is an Italian FortuneTeller who was born from the good half of M. Bison's soul when he purged it from himself. She wields the "Soul Power", which is the good version of Bison's Psycho Power.
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* ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' opens with you, the FeaturelessProtagonist, approaching a traveling fair and entering the fortuneteller's tent, where an "old gypsy" woman administers a PlayerPersonalityQuiz to you and then teleports you to the parallel world of Britannia (with your exact destination depending on the results of said quiz).
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* ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'' has Alexia, who belongs to the Chergari tribe, has the ability to see the past and present in her dreams, has some skill as a thief and con artist, and can oddly enough use storm magic, something unusual for not only other Chergari, but for nearly anyone else in the world, save the [[BigBad Black Knight]].
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* Rose from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'' is an Italian FortuneTeller who was born from the good half of M. Bison's soul when he purged it from himself. She wields the "Soul Power", which is the good version of Bison's Psycho Power.
* ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' opens with you, the FeaturelessProtagonist, approaching a traveling fair and entering the fortuneteller's tent, where an "old gypsy" woman administers a PlayerPersonalityQuiz to you and then teleports you to the parallel world of Britannia (with your exact destination depending on the results of said quiz).
* ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'' has Alexia, who belongs to the Chergari tribe, has the ability to see the past and present in her dreams, has some skill as a thief and con artist, and can oddly enough use storm magic, something unusual for not only other Chergari, but for nearly anyone else in the world, save the [[BigBad Black Knight]].
* ''VideoGame/UltimaIV'' opens with you, the FeaturelessProtagonist, approaching a traveling fair and entering the fortuneteller's tent, where an "old gypsy" woman administers a PlayerPersonalityQuiz to you and then teleports you to the parallel world of Britannia (with your exact destination depending on the results of said quiz).
* ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'' has Alexia, who belongs to the Chergari tribe, has the ability to see the past and present in her dreams, has some skill as a thief and con artist, and can oddly enough use storm magic, something unusual for not only other Chergari, but for nearly anyone else in the world, save the [[BigBad Black Knight]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', Madame Xanadu was a [[ConArtist charlatan]] conning tourists out of their money with cheap tricks from her shop on Bourbon Street. An encounter with Kent Nelson made her develop her own mystical abilities, and she expanded her shop to an important occultist hub.
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* Naturally comes up in ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'' whenever it delves into the history of Victor von Doom and Latveria.
** Abraham van Helsing meets Victoria Vladimirescu and Djordji Zindelo Hungaros when he arrives at Zefiro village, the former of whom is being tutored in sorcery by the latter.
** During ''Headfirst Slide into Latveria on a Bad Bet'', it's implied that Djordji tried to become a fully-fledged sorcerer but was cast out of Kamar-Taj because he was Romani. Though he tried to pass that knowledge on to Victoria's descendants, [[spoiler: a bigotry-motivated tragedy]] prompted him to stop. Generations later, Cythnia von Doom tried to pick it up but was never as skilled as Djordji was until [[spoiler: she makes a deal with Cthon for more power]] - and that doesn't help her much in the long run either.
** Abraham van Helsing meets Victoria Vladimirescu and Djordji Zindelo Hungaros when he arrives at Zefiro village, the former of whom is being tutored in sorcery by the latter.
** During ''Headfirst Slide into Latveria on a Bad Bet'', it's implied that Djordji tried to become a fully-fledged sorcerer but was cast out of Kamar-Taj because he was Romani. Though he tried to pass that knowledge on to Victoria's descendants, [[spoiler: a bigotry-motivated tragedy]] prompted him to stop. Generations later, Cythnia von Doom tried to pick it up but was never as skilled as Djordji was until [[spoiler: she makes a deal with Cthon for more power]] - and that doesn't help her much in the long run either.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': The Vistani are very much based on the portrayal of Romani in Gothic Horror novels (and the Universal and Hammer horror films they inspired). They're mysterious and alien to most citizens of The Land of Mists, and are able to traverse the famously-unnavigable realm with relative ease. Some of them are just ordinary nomadic folk making their way in the world. . . but some work for the various evil beings of the land, up to and including some Darklords. They're famed in-universe for the skill and accuracy of their {{Seers}}[[note]]Divination magic is largely neutered by the planar metaphysics of the setting; Vistani seers are the exception[[/note]], they have a race-wide affinity for calling down curses, and all Vistani possess an ability called the "Evil Eye", which allows them to inflict a CharmPerson effect (in two different levels of strength), supernatural fear, or potentially deadly paralysis with a look. The downside is that [[WanderingJew they must perpetually stay on the move or lose their powers]], and they suffer [[{{Lunacy}} bouts of insanity on the nights of the full moon]].
** Recent releases of Ravenloft material have actively tried to distance the Vistani from some of the more offensive Romani stereotypes while showcasing more Vistani in an actively heroic role.
** Recent releases of Ravenloft material have actively tried to distance the Vistani from some of the more offensive Romani stereotypes while showcasing more Vistani in an actively heroic role.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': The Vistani are very much based on the portrayal of Romani in Gothic Horror novels (and the Universal and Hammer horror films they inspired). They're mysterious and alien to most citizens of The Land of Mists, and are able to traverse the famously-unnavigable realm with relative ease. Some of them are just ordinary nomadic folk making their way in the world. . . but some work for the various evil beings of the land, up to and including some Darklords. They're famed in-universe for the skill and accuracy of their {{Seers}}[[note]]Divination magic is largely neutered by the planar metaphysics of the setting; Vistani seers are the exception[[/note]], they have a race-wide affinity for calling down curses, and all Vistani possess an ability called the "Evil Eye", which allows them to inflict a CharmPerson effect (in two different levels of strength), supernatural fear, or potentially deadly paralysis with a look. The downside is that [[WanderingJew they must perpetually stay on the move or lose their powers]], and they suffer [[{{Lunacy}} bouts of insanity on the nights of the full moon]].
**moon]]. Recent releases of Ravenloft material have actively tried to distance the Vistani from some of the more offensive Romani stereotypes while showcasing more Vistani in an actively heroic role.
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* ''ComicStrip/TheFortunesOfFlossie'': Superstitious Flossie visits a "gypsy" camp to have her fortune told, and is warned by the fortune teller that her jewelry is under a curse that can only be dispelled by moonlight. The "magical gypsies" are actually RoguishRomani using their reputation for supernatural powers to dupe Flossie into setting her jewelry outside in the middle of the night -- all the better to steal it.
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* ''ComicStrip/TheFortunesOfFlossie'': Superstitious Flossie visits a "gypsy" camp to have her fortune told, and is warned by the fortune teller that her jewelry is under a curse that can only be dispelled by moonlight. The "magical gypsies" are actually RoguishRomani using their reputation for supernatural powers to dupe Flossie into setting her jewelry outside in the middle of the night -- all the better to steal it.
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* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' of course features a fortune teller and magic-using Romani tribe. Despite it being a fairy tale universe, their magic is shown to be dark and mysterious. They imprison magical talking birds to help in their spells so, when Virginia frees them, they punish her with a GypsyCurse to get hair that never stops growing.
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* ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'' ''Series/The10thKingdom'' of course features a fortune teller and magic-using Romani tribe. Despite it being a fairy tale universe, their magic is shown to be dark and mysterious. They imprison magical talking birds to help in their spells so, when Virginia frees them, they punish her with a GypsyCurse to get hair that never stops growing.
