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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1104: Medieval Charms, Charmers, and Charming, II: The Various Uses of Verbal Magic

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:'Charms, Charmers & Charming' Section, International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
Organiser:Jonathan Roper, Department of Estonian & Comparative Folklore, University of Tartu
Moderator/Chair:Éva Pócs, Department of Ethnology & Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs
Paper 1104-aThe Oldest German Theft Charm and Its Cultural Context
(Language: English)
Eleonora Cianci, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture moderne, Università degli studi 'G. d'Annunzio' Chieti e Pescara
Index terms: Daily Life, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - German
Paper 1104-bMagical Management: Medieval Bulgarian Verbal Amulets as Part of a Coping Strategy
(Language: English)
Svetlana Tsonkova, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Slavic, Literacy and Orality, Religious Life
Paper 1104-cImpotence Magic from Medieval Ireland
(Language: English)
Jacqueline Borsje, School of Irish Language & Literature, University of Ulster / Art, Religion & Culture Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Pagan Religions, Sexuality
Abstract

This is the second of panel on medieval charms, charmers, and charming at Leeds this year, sponsored by the ISFNR's Committee on Charms, Charmers, and Charming. In this panel, papers examine a) instructions on using a Zaubersieb to find thieves which accompany a c. 13th German charm (the earliest documentation of a procedure later popular in German tradition), and b) how Bulgarian charms were used as part of crisis management and coping strategies in the Middle Ages, and c) what a Irish spell, headed 'Knowledge to render a man impotent' was doing in a monastic manuscript.