o Bengh

"the Devil." Among the Roma, the Devil, the principle of Evil, as opposed to o Del, God, the principle of good. They both are powerful and ceaselessly contend against each other. He competed with God in the making of two statuettes of earth, and made them in the form of a man and woman. See Damo and Yehwah.

References

Source

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