This collection surveys the rich tradition of ‘words of power’ – prayers and varieties of verbal magic, both spoken and written – together with associated rituals, in Ireland from the early Middle Ages until the present day. Presenting the work of a broad array of scholars and field researchers, it is the first book to cover the full range of the topic.
Author(s): Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, Barbara Hillers, Ciarán Ó Gealbháin
Series: New Approaches to Celtic Religion and Mythology
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 265
City: Cardiff
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
