Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland : from the medieval to the modern / edited by Ilona Tuomi [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carey, John

Contributor:

Tuomi, Ilona, editor.

Series:

New approaches to Celtic religion and mythology.

New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Celtic--Ireland.

Mythology, Celtic.

Charms--Ireland--History.

Charms.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, Wales : University of Wales Press, 2019.

Summary:

An authoritative collection of studies of Irish charms, and the first to cover both the medieval and the modern evidence.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Table, Illustration and Maps

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. European and American Scholarship and the Study of Medieval Irish 'Magic' (1846-1960)

2. Charms in Medieval Irish Tales: Tradition, Adaptation, Invention

3. The Religious Significance of the sén 7 soladh in Altram Tige Dá Medar

4. Nine Hundred Years of the Caput Christi Charm: Scribal

5. In Defence of the Irish Saints who 'Loved Malediction'

6. Towards a Typology of European Narrative Charms in Irish Oral Tradition

7. Nineteenth-Century Charm Texts: Scope and Context

8. A Toothache Charm in a Manuscript Fragment of John Lysaght

9. 'The Cure for Bleeding': Charms and Other Cures for Blood-stopping in Irish Tradition

10. 'Cahill's Blood': Mr Cahill Makes the Cure

11. Aisling na Maighdine: 'The Virgin's Dream' in Irish Oral Tradition

12. An Leabhar Eoin: The In Principio Charm in Oral and Literary Tradition

13. The Cailleach and the Cosmic Hare

14. 'We'll talk now about charms': Knowledge as Folklore 205 and Folklore as Knowledge

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-78683-493-6

OCLC:

1127052196