Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland

Ilona Tuomi is a doctoral candidate of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork.John Carey is Professor 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. Ciarán Ó Gealbháin lectures in Folklore and Ethnology at University College Cork.

• 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 Lysaght9. 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