Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland

John Carey is Professor of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork. Ciaran O Gealbhain lectures in Folklore and Ethnology at University College Cork. Ilona Tuomi is a doctoral candidate of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork. Barbara Hillers is Associate Professor of Folklore in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington.

• 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