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A vagabond is a (generally impoverished) itinerant person. Such people may be called tramps, rogues, or hobos. A vagabond is characterized by almost continuous traveling, lacking a fixed home, temporary abode, or permanent residence. Vagabonds are not bums, as bums are not known for traveling but preferring to stay in one location. Historically, "vagabond" was a British legal term similar to vagrant, deriving from the Latin for 'purposeless wandering'. Under a 1495 statute, vagabonds could be sentenced to the stocks for three days and nights; in 1530, whipping was added. The assumption was that vagabonds were unlicensed beggars.

In Literature

William H. Davies The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, a non-fiction narrative of his own tramping in the United States.
Woody Guthrie Bound for Glory (book), an autobiography that includes his time travelling as a railroad hobo across the United States.
Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The protagonists raft down the Mississippi River.
Jack Shaftoe, one of the major characters in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, is a vagabond.
Armand, out of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, is referred to as a vagabond.
Belgarath, one of the lead characters in David Eddings' Belgariad series, is a vagabond.
Kenshin Himura, the hero of Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga Rurouni Kenshin, was a samurai who turned to the life of a vagabond to atone for his sins when he was known as Hitokiri Battousai (Battousai the Manslayer). "Rurouni" is actually a term meaning "master-less wandering samurai."
Goldmund, in Herman Hesse's Narziss and Goldmund, is described variously as a vagrant, a wastrel, and a vagabond.
Ken Kuhlken The Vagabond Virgins (book), a woman Lourdes Garcia, trying to find her sister Lupe Garcia.

In Television

The female ronin (master-less samurai) Ran from the anime Kazemakase Tsukikage Ran is entirely depicted as a vagabond, going where her adventures lead her.

In Movies

Agnes Varda's 1985, documentary style movie Vagabond, originally titled Sans Toit Ni Loi, "Without Roof or Law", follows a young woman, Mona, during her last winter roaming through the South of France. Her story is pieced together by the recollections of those who met her in her last weeks.

Used in Elton John's song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," played in the Lion King.

In Music

Diamonds & Rust (song) originally by Joan Baez and then later covered by Judas Priest and then again by Blackmore's Night, uses the word 'vagabond'

Name of a song by band Greenskeepers, which was re-released in 2008 in connection with the game Grand Theft Auto 4Further Information

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