Literary usage of Scrapies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A history of the gipsies: with specimens of the gipsy language, ed., with by Walter Simson (1865)
"This ia now prevented; the Lomond is enclosed, and the scrapies now manage their
affairs on the road-sides." The people mentioned in this extract are ..."
2. The New Statistical Account of Scotland (1845)
"Formerly, many individuals, nicknamed " scrapies," kept horses and cattle in the
town, and, if fame may be believed, «upported them by pilfering freely from ..."
3. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1885)
"The place is remarkable also for a reminiscence of a totally opposite kind. '
A singular set of vagrants existed long in Falkland called scrapies, ..."
4. Dancing by Lilly Grove Frazer, Lilly Grove, Percy Macquoid (1895)
"This brings us to Scotland, where gipsies to this day are often called '
Egyptians ;' ' scrapies' was an old but less frequent name for them, ..."
5. The Picture of Scotland by Robert Chambers (1827)
"They were called scrapies, for a reason which will appear. They used to employ
themselves ostensibly in carrying salt, fish, &c. and in the intervals of ..."
6. The Picture of Scotland by Robert Chambers (1828)
"In their domestic circumstances, the scrapies were the most wretched imaginable—scarcely
better than beggars or gypsies. On the pretext of the horse's grass ..."
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