Gypsy
From Charmed
Gypsy Magic is a sister tradition to Witchcraft and the two can sometime work together to overcome great evil. In Charmed Romani Gypsies also have magical powers and are separated into tribes, just as wicthes are separated into covens. These tribes, like covens also may have a tribe symbol or talisman which represents them. For example, Eva belonged to a tribe whose symbol was the Evil Eye just as the Triquetra is the symbol of the Warren Witches.
[edit] Shuvani
A Shuvani is the gypsy's version of a High Priestess and are more powerful than normal gypsies. One cannot choose to be a Shuvani, either one is born that way or not. The only known Shuvanis are Teresa, Lydia and Ava and only the last one still lives. Orin & Cree, the gypsy hunters, specifically targeted Shuvanis in order to obtain their powers.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
Gypsies are born with the same basic powers as witches are when they are born i.e. Spellcasting, Potion Making and Scrying. The first two are shown as Marina's Gypsy Book contained potions recipes and spells. Lydia also made a potion to kill Orin (although when he attacked he was too powerful for it to affect him) and Ava cast the gypy verison of the spell to Call Our Ancestors.
Although no gypsy has been seen scrying it stems from a very basic form of divination and is a basic power of all witches and so, since the two cultures are sister traditions and given the gypsy's strong relationship with divination (see below) it is not too much of a stretch to assume that Gypsies can scry.
Gypsies have a very strong relation to Fortune telling though it is not truly known what this is. Teresa read Phoebe's palm showing that she was practiced in the art of Palmistry. Lydia on the other hand chose to read her tea leaves to divine the future. It may be that some Gypsies have an innate apititude for some forms of Fortune Telling rather than others, however it is not that only gypsies can tell fortunes as Paige was also to read tea leaves that accurately warned them of the future.
Each Gypsy family also tends to keep a Gypsy Book containing spells, potions, herbal remedies, rituals etc. This is the gypsy's version of a Book of Shadows.
