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	Gyptians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gyptian children are described as being extravagantly loved, and looked after instinctively by other members of the culture if they are to stray from their mother.
		Gyptians are an honourable people, and appear to owe debts to Lyra Belacqua's father, Lord Asriel for defeating a proposed Watercourse Bill in Parliament, amongst other things.
		Non-gyptian teenagers that Lyra talks to insinuate that gyptians steal horses, and are not worried by the disappearance of a gyptian child.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gyptians (595 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass
		At the meeting of Gyptians, which is called a Roping, Lord Faa rallies his people to send a band of men north to rescue the kidnapped children.
		Tartars attack the Gyptians, steal Lyra, and bring her to Bolvanger, where the other children are being kept.
		The Gyptians, for example, are a nomadic and irreligious society.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/section1.html (3306 words)

	The Golden Compass
		Coulter, and when Lyra decides to escape, her life takes on a whole new meaning with the Gyptians as they begin an effort to find the missing children.
		The Gyptians are the ones who explain to Lyra the purpose of the alethiomter, and she learns to use it to help guide them in their search for the missing children.
		The reader is made aware that Lyra’s future will help determine the fate of the entire world, but she is not allowed to know this – for her success can only come from her ignorance.
	home.sprintmail.com /~kjelkins/goldenkje.htm (390 words)

	..: His Dark Materials Trilogy :.. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The gyptians are a gypsy group of boat-people who live a harsh life on the water tempered by their unwavering sense of family, loyalty and love.
		It is the gyptians' children who have suffered most at the hands of the Gobblers, and they have vowed to travel North to rescue them.
		Through the gyptian elders, Lord Faa and Farder Coram, Lyra is bewildered to learn that her parents are Lord Asriel and Mrs.
	materials.fanatique.net /compass.html (816 words)

	The Northern Lights Summary
		The Gyptians having lost significant numbers of children to the General oblation board then mount a rescue expedition to the north to save they’re children.
		Stopping in Lapland to consult the witches Lyra meets Iorek Byrnison a giant armoured bear forced to work because the local populace have stolen his armour, using the alethiometer she finds it and the bear is indebted to her.
		When she is caught in the act of escape with the aid of a strange bird they try to separate her from her daemon but she is saved by the most unlikely of people, Mrs coulter.
	www.shvoong.com /books/1495-NORTHERN-LIGHTS (961 words)

	SparkNotes: His Dark Materials: Plot Overview
		Before she can, however, she falls in with the Costas, a family that is part of a clan of people known as Gyptians, who live in boats and travel on the rivers.
		The Costas take Lyra to meet John Faa, the king of the Gyptians, who is planning an expedition north in search of the Gobblers and the missing children.
		From her meeting with John Faa, Lyra learns that Ma Costa (the mother of the Costa family) looked after her when she was a baby and that Lord Asriel is her father and Mrs.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/hisdarkmaterials/summary.html (2985 words)

	Characters - The Golden Compass
		He is first captured by the Oblation board in Oxford, and when Lyra herself is captured in the far north, she is taken to the same facility as he.
		Head of a Gyptian family; put in charge of coordinating the other gyptian leader’s work; second in command of the Gyptians.
		When Lyra and the party of gyptians come across Iorek, he is living as an outcast in a sparsely populated northern town.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/CharactersOfTGC.html (922 words)

	The Golden Compass Summary / Study Guide
		Gyptian men and women risk their lives for her and to save or rescue other children.
		Lyra is an example of someone who is loyal to her friends, but has to make many choices between different loyalties.
		She must choose between The Master of Jordan College and her uncle, between her mother and her young friends and between the gyptians and the non-gyptians who were her "family." How did she make...
	www.enotes.com /golden-compass-qn/62486 (133 words)

	Iorek Byrnison - His Dark Materials Wiki \| BridgeToTheStars.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lyra and the gyptians find Iorek in the village of Trollesund, devoid of his armor and drunk on spirits.
		Lyra helps him get his armor back from the villagers and he agrees to help her and the gyptians rescue the children from Bolvangar.
		Iorek takes Lyra to find Tony Makarios and teaches her that bears cannot be tricked as humans can.
	bridgetothestars.net /wiki/index.php?title=Iorek_Byrnison&printable=yes (272 words)

	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) - PowerBookSearch!
		Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.
		Coulter, she joins a group of "gyptians" in search of their children, who, like Roger, have been spirited away by Mrs.
		Joining Lyra are a vagabond troop of gyptians (gypsies), witches, an outcast bear, and a Texan in a hot air balloon.
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	Harry Potter vs. His Dark Materials - Online Debate Network Forums
		They take he to a great meating of Gyptians in Holland, where the Gytian King, John Faa tells the Gyptians that they will make a voyage north to rescue the children who were taken by the Gobblers (there were more than just the two I mentioned).
		The Gyptians are enraged that the Oblation Board is severing children at Bolvangar.
		During a fire alarm she finds a group of childresns' dæmons in cages, and since dæmons cannot stray far away from their humans, unless that human is a witch, they know that they are severed dæmons.
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	His Dark Materials \| Timelines \| BridgeToTheStars.Net
		Iorek and Lee then join the gyptians and Lyra on their journey to rescue the children.
		- The gyptians are ambushed by samoyed hunters, who kidnap Lyra and take her to Bolvangar.
		She leaves them then and goes to Mary and tells her things as well, then returns to the Gyptians on a boat.
	www.bridgetothestars.net /index.php?p=timeline (5470 words)

	Bolvangar Lights // Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Two men with throwing nets capture Lyra & Pan, but she is freed by gyptians, including Tony Costa.
		She stays the night with the gyptians, who tell her the men were probably Tartars.
		The gyptians, led by John Faa, tell Lyra they're going on an expedition to search for the missing children.
	www.london-beauty.com /materials/nl06.htm (77 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Golden Compass, His Dark Materials Ser. Series #1
		When her uncle, Lord Asriel, returns from the North with tales of mystery and danger, it seems to have little to do with her -- even the rumor of the severed child.
		But his visit sets off a chain of events that draws Lyra into the heart of a terrible struggle -- a struggle that involves scientists performing hideous experiments on children, alliances with gyptians and witch clans, battles with trained mercenaries, and armored bears.
		And through it all, there dawns in Lyra a sense that her success or failure may mean even more than simply life or death.
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	The Golden Compass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lyra and her daemon, Pantalaimon, lead a happy and wild life at Jordan College, Oxford where rumors travel the streets that children are mysteriously disapearing, being taken to someplace by someone.
		She is picked up by the Costas, a gyptian family.
		They travel to the traditional meeting place of the gyptians, the fens, and meet Lord John Faa, king of the gyptians.
	dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us /dixieschool/web/claire/bookreview/page2.html (312 words)

	Locations
		Coulter has an apartment here, where she and Lyra live for a period of roughly six weeks before Lyra runs away during a cocktail party.
		Gyptian Boats & Zaal- Lyra is rescued by the gyptians and goes with them on their canal boats to the Zaal, an old meeting hall of the gyptians.
		The Gyptians fight here to save the children still alive, while Lyra, Iorek, Roger, and Lee are taken to Svalbard by the witches
	www.angelfire.com /realm/darkmaterials/locations.html (1014 words)

	Golden Compass Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Gyptians have gotten a lot of children stolen by the gobblers, so they plan to go to the north to rescue all of the children.
		I also predict that she will have an easy time coping with the north, and the troubles that arise in it, because she is very tomboyish and tough.
		But I do think that her and the crew of Gyptians that have arrived in the north will experience much violence and pain.
	homepage.mac.com /lpenner787/Joel/W-Goldenp2.shtml (287 words)

	Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials fantasy books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Along the way Lyra befriends gyptians looking for their missing children, witches that fly on cloud pine branches, a balloonist from Texas, and an armored polar bear.
		The adventure follows Lyra, a spunky young woman who travels to the ends of the earth hoping to free a group of captive children, including her best friend.
		Pullman covers a lot of territory effectively and introduces a host of interesting side characters, especially the strong-willed gyptians and the somber polar bear Iorek Byrnison.
	members.aol.com /misuly/pullman.htm (1491 words)

	His Dark Materials - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After success, and dealings with Armoured Bears (also known as the Panserbjørne) and Witches, Roger is killed by Lyra's own father Lord Asriel (who had pretended to be her uncle until the Gyptians informed her otherwise) in his own successful experiment to create a bridge into another world.
		When the gyptians' children are kidnapped by the Church to serve as experiments in the frozen outpost of Bolvangar, they mount a rescue expedition, bringing Lyra along.
		Lee Scoresby is a rangy Texan aeronaut who pilots a balloon for Lyra and the gyptians in their expedition North; he is also a friend of Iorek Byrnison, and comes to aid Lyra in a number of her battles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/His_Dark_Materials (3271 words)

	Lee Scoresby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lee (and his dæmon, Hester the hare) pledge their support to John Faa and the Gyptians on a mission to destroy Bolvangar and save its captive children.
		As the Gyptians finish destroying Bolvangar, Mrs Coulter attacks with some Tartars to capture her daughter, Lyra.
		Lee rescues Iorek from another part of the battle, and is just in time to save Lyra and Roger Parslow from Mrs Coulter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lee_Scoresby (789 words)

	Bolvangar Lights // Destiny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lyra meets head of the western gyptians, John Faa, & Farder Coram.
		The gyptians looked after Lyra until she was ready to go to Jordan.
		The gyptians are searching up north for the missing children.
	www.london-beauty.com /materials/nl07.htm (84 words)

	Lyra Belacqua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lyra is an unruly child and often exasperates those who try to care for her, such as the Jordan housekeeper and her tutors.
		Though she receives little formal education she is quick-witted and canny, becoming a natural leader to the college children and the "townies" of Oxford in their intermittent conflicts with the gyptians and the children of the nearby claybeds.
		One of her closest friends is the kitchen boy Roger Parslow, and it is her bond with him that motivates most of the action in Northern Lights.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lyra_Belacqua (620 words)

	The Golden Compass
		Her old friends the gyptians, who live in canal boats, rescue her, and mount an expedition to Lapland to locate the missing children.
		The plot was captivating as Lyra journeys to the North with Iorek Byrnison and the gang of gyptians.
		The mystery of the gruesome cutting experiments and the saga of her parents kept me turning the pages, dying to figure out what it would all mean for her in the end.
	www.students.sonoma.edu /clubs/azo/PPullman.htm (9585 words)

	Dark Materials - Book Reviews \| Germantown Academy Upper/Middle School Library - Noodle Tools
		Instead of children learning to play the game of quidditch on flying broomsticks at Hogwarts School of Witchraft and Wizardry, in the Dark Materials Trilogy we have Will and Lyra, two children from parallel worlds, who bond as they pursue their individual coming-of-age searches.
		The books rollick along as the children encounter the good witch Serafina Pekkala, battle trained mercenaries, make alliances with gyptians and armored bears, adventure after adventure unfolding.
		But there is also a serious depth to these books as the children deal with the Religious Authority, search for dust the essence of the universe, while moving from one world into another and then back.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/library/reviews/Pullman.htm (475 words)

	John Faa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Faa, normally known as Lord Faa, is the King of the Gyptians in the fictional trilogy His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
		When the Oblation Board starts kidnapping children, he leads 170 of his men to save them from a terrible fate.
		He is wounded in an ambush where many of his Gyptians perish, despite the action of Iorek Byrnison, his hired bear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Faa (246 words)

	BookHooks
		Lyra finds out that her mother is in charge of the Gobblers and she decides to run away.
		She is then almost killed by hunters when the Gyptians save her and vow their service to her to find Roger and help him and all the other children escape.
		When the Gyptians and Lyra arrive in the witch village, Lyra finds Iorek Byrnison an exiled bear who also vows his services to Lyra and the Gyptians.
	www.bookhooks.com /detailed.cfm?Report_number=1961 (443 words)

	Nexus, Colorado's Holistic Health and Spirituality Journal
		The Europeans were both drawn to and repelled by these dark-skinned nomads in their colorful clothes, and mistakenly believed they were from
		They called them the "Egyptians," eventually shortened to gyptians and finally gypsies.
		Instead, they carried with them tarot cards and would work magic, do spells and perform divination such as fortune telling, palmistry and tea leaf readings.
	www.nexuspub.com /journeys/Theosophy.htm (1116 words)

	BookHooks
		Lyra is then saved by a group of people called Gyptians which she knew from Oxford.
		After talking to the head elder it is decided that a large group of men (including Lyra) will go to the north too save the children.
		But on an attack by the Gyptians and Iorek all the children and Lyra escape from the prison.
	www.bookhooks.com /detailed.cfm?Report_number=330 (496 words)

	BookHooks
		She also finds out that the kids who are kidnapped by the Gobblers are taken up north and they have experiments performed on them and their daemons.
		Lyra meets up with the Costas (gyptians that she knew from Oxford).
		Lyra travels with the gyptians to free the children but on the journey she learns that her uncle, Lord Asriel, is being held prisoner by the panserbjorne (armored bears).
	www.bookhooks.com /detailed.cfm?Report_number=1962 (491 words)

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