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Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland - From the Medieval to the Modern (Paperback)
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Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland - From the Medieval to the Modern (Paperback)
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
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This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence
for Irish charms, from medieval to modern times. As Ireland has one
of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most
comprehensively recorded folklore traditions, it affords a uniquely
rich body of evidence for such an investigation. The collection
includes surveys of broad aspects of the subject (charm
scholarship, charms in medieval tales, modern narrative charms,
nineteenth-century charm documentation); dossiers of the evidence
for specific charms (a headache charm, a nightmare charm, charms
against bleeding); a study comparing the curses of saints with
those of poets; and an account of a newly discovered manuscript of
a toothache charm. The practices of a contemporary healer are
described on the basis of recent fieldwork, and the connection
between charms and storytelling is foregrounded in chapters on the
textual amulet known as the Leabhar Eoin, on the belief that
witches steal butter, and on the nature of the belief that effects
supernatural cures.
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