Charms, Charmers and Charming International

Charms, Charmers, and Charmingbrings together the work of many of today's key scholars in the field of verbal charming. The essays it contains cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers, and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic.

Unity and Diversity in Charms Studies
Charms studies today
Topics and Issues in Charms Studies	p. 1
The Charmer's Body and Behaviour as a Window Onto Early Modern Selfhood	p. 3
'If Not, Shall Employ "Rough on Rats"': Identifying the Common Elements of Rat Charms	p. 17
Miracles and Impossibilities in Magic Folk Poetry	p. 27
Swedish Snakebite Charms from a Gender Perspective	p. 54
Charms as a Means of Coping	p. 62
On Systematizing the Narrative Elements of Slavic Charms	p. 71
Conformity and Originality in Middle English Charms	p. 87
The Nightmare Charm in King Lear	p. 100
Expressions of Impossibility and Inevitability in Mari Charms	p. 108
National Traditions	p. 119
Russian Love Charms in a Comparative Light	p. 121
Slovenian Charms Between South Slavic and Central European Tradition	p. 145
Finnish Snake Charms	p. 163
Estonian Narrative Charms in European Context	p. 174
Lithuanian and Latvian Charms: Searching for Parallels	p. 186
The Corpus of Charms in the Middle English Leechcraft Remedy Books	p. 214
The Charms of Biljana, a Bajalica (Conjuror) in Budisava, Serbia	p. 238
Verbal Charms in Malagasy Folktales	p. 246
The Structure and Use of Charms in Georgia, The Caucasus	p. 260
Manteras: An Overview of a Malay Archipelagoes' Charming Tradition	p. 273
Index	p. 288
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Charms, Charmers and Charming International Research on Verbal Magic

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