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In the book are presented studies of 18 renowned researchers focussing on the verbal aspects of everyday magic, placing in the centre the richest and most poetic manifestation of verbal magic – the charm or incantatio. Incantations are in Europe well spread folklore genre, which contain very old magical elemrnts. The book covers wide spectrum of regions, from United Kingdom to Russia and Iran, and includes also Slovenia. The researchers have devoted their attention to phenomenological and theoretical studies of incantatio, and have discussed various topics, from the origin of charms and ancient European magical practices, to the receptions and diffusions of different types of charms.
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Keywords
- Alternative belief systems
- čarovništvo
- Charms
- Clairvoyance
- collective volume
- Europe
- Evropa
- folk beliefs
- Folklore, myths & legends
- Geographical Qualifiers
- History
- Humanities
- Incantation
- jasnovidnost
- ljudska verovanja
- Magic
- Occult studies
- Occultism
- okultizem
- Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge
- popular healing
- Religion & beliefs
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRY Alternative belief systems::QRYX Occult studies
- zagovarjanja
- zagovori
- zborniki
- zdravilstvo
- zgodovina
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DOI: 10.3986/9789610502159Editions