Beng

In Gypsy popular belief, the Devil who engages God in a trial of strength but who always is beaten. Beng is the source of evil and misfortune, and is said to dwell in the woods.

Among the Kalderash Gypsies, the god of evil.1

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References

Notes

  1. Clebert, Jean-Paul. (1967). The Gypsies. Baltimore: Penguin, p. 172.

Source

  • Trigg, Elwood B. (1973). Gypsy Demons and Divinities. Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, p. 165.