TY - GEN AU - Kapaló,James Alexander AU - Éva Pócs. AU - William Ryan. TI - The power of words: studies on charms and charming in Europe PY - 2013/// CY - Budapest, Hungary PB - Central European University Press KW - Europe KW - History KW - European 1 KW - General & Multiperiod KW - Charms KW - Incantations N1 - Published in 2013 by Central European University Press; Index compiled by Emese Ilyefalvy; Printed in Hungary by Akakprint Kft., Budapest; E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Genre, Classification, Terminology -- Historical and Comparative Studies -- Content and Function of Charms; A Genre in the Making. The First Study of Charms in Norway -- The Making of a Charm Collector. Alexander Carmichael in Uist, from 1864 to 1882 -- Charm Indexes: Problems and Perspectives -- Medieval Narrative Charms -- The Historical Development of "Charm" Terminology in Hungarian -- The Marginality of Charms in Medieval England -- Church Benedictions and Popular Charms in Hungary -- Benediction and Exorcism in Early Modern Hungary -- Baltic and East Slavic Charms -- The Năjit Between Prayers and Charms: A Study of the Romanian Manuscript Tradition -- Charming The Moon: Moon Charms for Sick Children in Portuguese Ethnography -- "Dear Merciful Mother": The Virgin Mary in Finnish and Karelian Birth Incantations -- The Power of Words in Miracles, Visions, Incantations and Bewitchments UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb32282 ER -