Roper, Jonathan
Charms, Charmers and Charming
Part I. Topics and Issues in Charms Studies
1. The Charmer’s Body and Behaviour as a Window Onto Early Modern Selfhood
Laura Stark
2. ‘If Not, Shall Employ “Rough on Rats”’: Identifying the Common Elements of Rat Charms
Paul Cowdell
3. Miracles and Impossibilities in Magic Folk Poetry
Éva Pócs
4. Swedish Snakebite Charms from a Gender Perspective
Ritwa Herjulfsdotter
5. Charms as a Means of Coping
Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
6. On Systematizing the Narrative Elements of Slavic Charms
Vladimir Klyaus
7. Conformity and Originality in Middle English Charms
T. M. Smallwood
8. The Nightmare Charm in
Jacqueline Simpson
9. Expressions of Impossibility and Inevitability in Mari Charms
Natalia Glukhova, Vladimir Glukhov
Part II. National Traditions
10. Russian Love Charms in a Comparative Light
Andrei Toporkov
11. Slovenian Charms Between South Slavic and Central European Tradition
Monika Kropej
12. Finnish Snake Charms
Henni Ilomäki
13. Estonian Narrative Charms in European Context
Jonathan Roper
14. Lithuanian and Latvian Charms: Searching for Parallels
Daiva Vaitkevičienė
15. The Corpus of Charms in the Middle English Leechcraft Remedy Books
Lea Olsan
16. The Charms of Biljana, a Bajalica (Conjuror) in Budisava, Serbia
Maria Vivod
17. Verbal Charms in Malagasy Folktales
Lee Haring
18. The Structure and Use of Charms in Georgia, The Caucasus
Meri Tsiklauri, David Hunt
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Keywords: History, History of Medieval Europe, Comparative Religion, Social History, Cultural History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory
- Editor
- Roper, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2009
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
- Page amount
- 321 pages
- Category
- History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230583535
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36250-9