Čin ruk yek mánush
Ko mudarel tut.”
“Remain thou here
Till the rag become an animal,
Till the animal, a tree,
Till the tree, a man,
Who will destroy thee!”
Dr. Wlislocki suggests that “the idea of the tree’s becoming a man, is derived from the old gypsy belief that the first human beings were made from the leaves of trees,” and refers to what he has elsewhere written on a tradition of the creation of the world, as held by Transylvanian gypsies. The following is a children’s song, in which the belief may be traced:—
“Amaro dád jál ándro bes