Not an Irish Traveler name as far as I’m aware but there is a decent size community of them not all that far away in South Carolina.
I had heard a story that these “travelers” are taught that Jesus was nailed to the cross with a ‘golden spike’ and that one of them obtained that spike which granted them to right to steal whatever they wanted, or forgave them for the sin of theft or something...
It was the most bizarre thing I ever heard and a hideous justification to teach your children that stealing was OK.
Has anyone else ever heard this?