Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming

The ISFNR Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming aims to encourage the study of verbal charms (known in other languages as Segen, scongiuri, zagovory, loitsut, etc.), the practice of charming, and the practitioners of charms and their clients.

The Committee consists of Elenora Cianci, James Kapalo, Mare Kõiva, Lea Olsan, Haralampos Passalis, Éva Pócs, Jonathan Roper, Emanuela Timotin, Andrey Toporkov, and Daiva Vaitkevičiene.

Resources

International Annotated Charms Bibliography (a work in progress, version as of April 2015)
Recent Charms Scolarship
Incantatio. An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming

Discussion documents

Charm indexes: problems and perspectives (Revised Version)   by Andrei Toporkov and Tatiana Agapkina
Responses to Toporkov and Agapkina's proposals

Future meetings

Zagreb, June 2020

Past meetings

Budapest Programme
Budapest Abstracts
Cork Abstracts 2016
Cork Programme
Pécs Programme 2015 Programme
Pécs Abstracts

Sponsored session at Leeds IMC 2014

Vilnius 2013
Programme
Abstracts
Moscow 2011
Programme
Moscow Photos
Bucharest 2010
Athens 2009
Abstracts
Tartu 2008
Pécs 2007
London 2005
London 2003

Links

Charms, Magic, Folklore [in Russian]
The Power of Words in Traditional European Culture
Romanian Love Charms Database

Some of the committee members: Éva Pócs, Emanuela Timotin and Laura Jiga in Pécs, Hungary 2015

For more information contact
jonathan.roper@ut.ee