Ive a copy of a book called a shepherds life and in it is these few paragraphs from the author who spent time in the villages of the wiltshire downs....The dark people of the village had a passion for eating hedgehogs.How healthy these people are is hardly known even to those who make a special study of these aliens,who,albeit aliens,are yet more native than any englishman in the land. They were so good at their common tricks that in the azzises courts at salisbury in around the 1840s rarely a gypsy came to the court. In a talk the author had with a gypsy,the gypsy had stated"you know what the books say, and we dont. But we know other things that are not in books,and that is what we have. Its ours,our own,and you cant know it".There three different types of dark people in the village area, and many dark people could not be identified as belonging to any one race.First the gypsy,rather short in stature,brown skinned with broad face and high cheekbones.Secondly the men and women of white skins and good features,who had round heads and were physically and mentally just as good as the best blue eyed people.The third type differed greatly from the first two.They were smallest in size and had narrow heads and long oval faces,and were very dark skinned,also having a hotter temper. The characters which distingush the ancient british or iberian race appear to predominate in persons of this type,but also as there was a great deal of mixed blood within these peoples, it was hard to distinguish at all times which people came from which race.....cheryle.f
