The kings of Scotland were often reduced to the humiliating necessity of compromising such matters with their rebellious subjects, and James himself even entered into a sort of league with Johnie FAA, the king of the gypsies.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
I knew that among all the Gypsies Sinfi was almost the only one who possessed that power which belonged once to her race, that power which is expressed in a Scottish word now universally misused, 'glamour,' the power which Johnnie FAA and his people brought into play when they abducted Lady Casilis.
"Aylwin"
Theodore Watts-Dunton
Also for a village destroyed in battle they say: "Ua FAA Papateaina"-made to be like Papatea.
"Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before"
George Turner