Bringing together many of today's key scholars of verbal charming, these essays cover vernacular magical texts and practice from Malaysia to Madagascar, and from England to Estonia. As the most comprehensive collection of research on charms, charmers and charming available in the English language, it forms an essential reader on the topic.
Author Biography:
PAUL COWDELL National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield
NATALIA GLUKHOVA Finno-Ugric Languages Department, Mari State University, Mari El, Russian Federation
VLADIMIR GLUKHOV Freelance Researcher
LEE HARING Professor Emeritus of English, Brooklyn College, the City University of New York
RITWA HERJULFSDOTTER Doctoral Candidate of Ethnology, University of Gothenburg and Nordic Museum postgraduate school
DAVID HUNT Professor Emeritus, London South Bank University
HENNI ILOMÄKI Freelance Researcher
VLADIMIR KLYAUS Institute of World Literature, Moscow
MONIKA KROPEJ Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Slovene Ethnology, the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana
LEA OLSAN Professor Emerita of English, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, USA
LOW KOK ON Senior Lecturer, School of Arts of the Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
ÉVA PÓCS Professor Emerita, the University of Pécs, Hungary
JONATHAN ROPER Teaching Fellow in English Language, the University of Leeds,UK
JACQUELINE SIMPSON The Folklore Society
T.M. SMALLWOOD Lecturer in English, the University of Ulster
LAURA STARK Professor of Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
ANDREI TOPORKOV Researcher, Institute of the World Literature, Moscow
MARY TSIKLAURI Associate, the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia
DAIVA VAITKEVI?IEN? Senior Researcher, the Institute of Lithuanian Literature andFolklore
MARIA VIVOD Associate Researcher, the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, France