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Magdalena Borodin
Full Name: Magdalena Malina Marishka Borodin Trade(s): Musician (playing mainly the fiddle), and keeper of the dogs and ferrets. The dogs guard the vardos, the ferrets hunt rats, and both are also bred and sold Date & Place of Birth: Unknown -- born into slavery in Rumania Favourite Pastime(s): "Practicing my music, playing with the animals (they can dance!), and trying to figure out how Liliana and Katja can predict the future" Favourite Meal: "The mushroom stew that was served the night I was found by the Kumpania" Favourite Colour: Yellow Favourite Member of the Kumpania: "I cannot pick, I do love everyone!" Favourite Weapon: "Music almost always soothes the savage beast, but if that doesn't work, a dagger can take out said beast" Quote: "Every day can be brightened with music!"
Background That is until she escaped from enslavement at the age of twelve, when her parents sent her out on a stormy night to find her destiny, and to roam freely as they could no longer do. Leaving Rumania and escaping from her Turkish masters, she wandered to the east for many weeks alone until she was found by the Kumpania and adopted by us. Her life truly began again at that time, and every day of freedom has been sweet and precious to her. She loves her music because it brings her family closer to her. Although life for her Vitsa has been hard, her music sustains her. She may argue and bicker with some of the rest of us occasionally, but it is only playing, and she respects her new family very much. (Even Milosh, who she respects for his brilliant musical ability at other instruments -- she just wishes he would leave the fiddle to her!)
Her greatest hope is that one day she will see her parents again, and that Nikolai will arrange a marriage for her so that she may have children to pass her music down to. She is widely known as (along with Valentina) one of the most cheerful Gypsies in the Kumpania, and is always busy trying to mediate squabbles that arise out of the kindness of her heart.
Click on the book of Gypsy lore to email Magdalena
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