.... if I would buy from a gypsy 
Well not directly.
Knock at the door .... carpenter answered as he thought it was neighbor asking him to move his van .... greeted by middle aged women with the question ......
He answered in a polite manner on my behalf.
I would have said the same too. 
How very strange
I had a gnarly old lady tell me "It's lucky to buy something from a gypsy" on my first refusal of some heather.
Your carpenter may have inadvertently got a hex put on your house - sell it quick!
"It's lucky to buy something from a gypsy"
This is just marketing spiel perpetuated by the Gypsies to promote their heather farming business ventures.
Bit of a niche market, but there are enough superstitious people around for it to be worthwhile.
She didnt look like this did she?
I wouldn't buy anything from a doorstep seller(*), irrespective of their gypsyness. I don't like being put on the spot, don't like the invasive nature of the marketing, and have no means of validating the authenticity of the seller or their goods. And I file "bad luck" and gypsy curses in the same drawer as religious zealots, homeopathy, and other equine manure; the only fear I'd have from not buying is one of her partner jemmying my back doors in whilst she kept me busy at the front. So to speak.
(*) - unless I was buying a doorstep, obviously.
I always work on the principal that if lucky heather worked then the old crone with the bag full selling it wouldn't need to be selling it in the first place!
Hah, yeah. "How lucky are you!! You've got shitloads!"
Maybe you can have too much of a good thing?
Is there a specific variety of lucky heather, or is it just because it's been handled by a gypsy that makes it lucky?
Do gypsies need to be involved in the full end-to-end cycle of planting, growing & harvesting?
Or is it sufficient for them to buy a load of standard unlucky heather?
I just want to know so I can correctly authenticate any heather I am offered.
I think it works a bit like priests and holy water, which is tap water that they've 'blessed'.
See also, homeopathy.
(Incidentally, of all the random things that religion demands, it truly amazes me that someone can sit there actually blessing water and never think, "what the flip am I doing, I could be out riding my bike." Water! It's just water!!)
It's just water!!
Try telling that to a scalded vampire!
See also, homeopathy.
Ah, right. So 'Lucky Heather' is a load of tosh too then.
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