Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland : from the medieval to the modern /: from the medieval to the modern. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, Barbara Hillers and Ciarán Ó Géalbháin.
• Editors: Tuomi, Ilona; Carey, John, 1957-; Hillers, Barbara; Ó Géalbháin, Ciarán
• Contents: List of Illustrations and MapsList of TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. Jacqueline Borsje – European and American Scholarship and the Study of Medieval Irish ‘Magic’ (1846–1960)2. John Carey – Charms in Medieval Irish Tales: Tradition, Adaptation, Invention3. Cathinka Dahl Hambro – The Religious Significance of the sén 7 soladh in Altram Tige Dá Medar4. Ilona Tuomi – Nine Hundred Years of the Caput Christi Charm: Scribal Strategies and Textual Transmission5. Ksenia Kudenko – In Defence of the Irish Saints who ‘Loved Malediction’6. Barbara Hillers – Towards a Typology of European Narrative Charms in Irish Oral Tradition7. Nicholas M. Wolf – Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context8. Joseph J. Flahive – A Toothache Charm in a Manuscript Fragment of John Lysaght 9. Bairbre Ní Fhloinn – ‘The Cure for Bleeding’: Charms and Other Cures for Blood-stopping in Irish Tradition10. Deirdre Nuttall – ‘Cahill’s Blood’: Mr Cahill Makes the Cure11. Denis McArdle – Aisling na Maighdine: The Virgin’s Dream in Irish Oral Tradition12. Gearóid Ó Crualaoich – An Leabhar Eoin: The ‘In Principio’ Charm in Oral and Literary Tradition13. Shane Lehane – The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare14. Stiofán Ó Cadhla – ‘We’ll talk now about charms’: Knowledge as Folklore and Folklore as KnowledgeBibliographyIndex
• Publisher Details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 250 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 133.4/409415; Charms -- Ireland -- History; Folklore -- Ireland; Folklore -- Irlande; Charms; Folklore; Ireland; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786834935; 1786834936
• Related ISBNs: 1786834928; 9781786834928
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-242) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.