Why do foreign novels like to use gypsies?

Gypsies are well-known wandering peoples in Europe, who have no fixed place and often appear in some foreign literary novels, especially in Europe. According to research, Gypsies came to northern India, but they didn't particularly care about their own history and didn't have much sense of historical belonging. They claim to be Roma and have their own unique language and culture. Common novels have the following reasons:

1. Character Gypsies are a nation that likes freedom at heart. They are eager to pursue a wandering life and are unwilling to settle in a place for a long time, like a nomadic people in self-exile. Being good at singing and dancing and living without a fixed place are their main characteristics. In the eyes of early Europeans, their identities were changeable. They were artists, but they were also beggars and even liars. In this context, they are generally sloppy, just like Esmeralda's crazy mother. The beauty of a gypsy woman and her wildness combine to have a special beauty. Writers create such images in novels to praise freedom and love, including Notre Dame and Carmen, in which the heroines are beautiful women who bravely pursue love but are passionate.

2. Skills In addition to their personality characteristics, Gypsies also have a divination technique, which will be mentioned many times in the novel. Including crystal ball and tarot divination, these two activities make them mysterious and shrouded in an unknown fog, and people are eager to know them.

3. Social environment At that time, European society was in a closed feudal society, and the church bound people's thoughts. Under this condition, writers are willing to enlarge the free and romantic color of Gypsies themselves in their literary works and emancipate their minds.