Éva Pócs: Preface

Verbal Charms in Everyday Life

Svetlana Adonyeva: A Letter to the “King of the Forest”. Contemporary Magic Practice in Russia

Olga Khristoforova: “You Will Remember Me”: Witchcraft and Power in a Russia’s Local Society

Evelina Rudan – Josipa Tomašić: How to Die More Easily: Charms Devices on a Person’s Deathbed

Valer Simion Cosma: Curses, Incantations and the Undoing of Spells: The Romanian Priest as Enchanter (Transylvania, 19th Century)

Deniver Vukelić: Micro-Analysis of Uroci (Evil Charms and Spells) in Croatian Tradition

Davor Nikolić: Rational Argumentation in Irrational Discourse: Argumentative Techniques of Verbal Charms and Folk Prayers

Toms Ķencis: Fighting Fire with Fire: Latvian Witchcraft Against Witches

Zsuzsa Závoti: “…And Swore that He May Never Harm the Sick or Anyone that can Sing this Charm”: Response to Mental Disorder in Anglo-Saxon England in the Context of Medical Charms

Louise S. Milne: One, Two, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares

Solovyeva, Alevtina: The Mythological World of Mongolian Charms

Magic Texts, Magic Objects

Henni Ilomäki: Oral Charms, Literal Notes

Eszter Spät: Gift from the Sky: Yezidi Sacred Objects as Symbols of Power, Tools of Healing and Seals of Divine Favour

Éva Pócs: Hungarian Incantations Between Eastern and Western Christianity

Maria Eliferova: Charms within Non-Charm Texts: Shifts in Pragmatics

Saša Babić: Charms and Localities: Location Descriptions in Charms

Inna Veselova: Transforming Reality: Personal Names in Ritual Speech. The Vinogradie or “Song of Praise” from the Russian North

Liudmila Fadeyeva: The Church of Saint Clement of Rome: The Sources and the Symbolism of the Image in Russian Charms

Vilmos Voigt: Russian Metal Icons Gazing into Your Eyes

Contributors