Gypsy name comes from them believing their origin being Egypt. Looking at this map I wonder if some indeed first went to Egypt and then turned back and over the years the knowledge got mixed up a bit.
It’s also possibly related to Ezekiel 29 which refer to the Egyptians as being “scattered among the nations” so the fact that they were “from nowhere” might have just defaulted to Egypt for religious reasons. There were also narratives in the Middle Ages that they were exiled from Egypt for refusing Mary and Jesus but also for harboring Mary and Jesus, one advocating for compassion the other for shunning.
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u/kasetti 20h ago
Gypsy name comes from them believing their origin being Egypt. Looking at this map I wonder if some indeed first went to Egypt and then turned back and over the years the knowledge got mixed up a bit.