[AlexanderHowl]

From what we know though, they abandoned the Vedic traditions and made their own (for example, they do not truck with Hindu cosmology, deities, and mythology). Their practices probably resemble traditional European witchcraft (use what works, tools are inexpensive, easily available, and easily disguised, never practice in front of outsiders, etc.). For example, divination would use dice, dominoes, and playing cards instead of Tarot cards and mirrors or pans of water over crystal balls (Tarot cards and crystal balls are for gullible outsiders).

One of the unique features of Romani magic seems to be the fusion of diviner, healer, and midwife. Healers would use divination for diagnosis and for determining treatment, and midwives would use divination for clues about the progress of the pregnancy. While a lot of it was just practical knowledge, the use of magic probably acted as a powerful placebo for the practitioners and the patients (though it would be particularly effective in settings with real magic).

Strangely enough, Stephen King may have gotten it right in Thinner with the curse. It was nothing extravagant, just a simple pronouncement, that doomed the killer of his daughter. Such a ritual could easily fit within RPM as a conditional ritual, with the pronouncement being the conditional trigger.