Nestled into some dark corner you have to seek
out, hoping to catch some glimpse of money or distant romance in her crystal
ball… You follow the incense on the air to her tent…
They too sought out the carnival for refuge. From
the late 1800’s well into the early 1930’s spiritualism was a huge occupation
in the country. Ghosts getting pulled out of eternity all over the place.
People loved it so much, they wrote songs about
it and this one, In a Little Gypsy Tea Room from 1935, was a top hit.
Around the end of the 30’s though things began to
change. As tea rooms and psychic parlors were raided and shut down, mediums
were turned into criminals. Some of those people were driven to find other
means of collecting their income and joined the carnivals and circuses.