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, Laura Jiga Iliescu, Mare Kõiva, Aigars Lielbārdis, Davor Nikolić, Lea Olsan, Haralampos Passalis, Éva Pócs, Jonathan Roper (Vice Chair), Emanuela Timotin (Chair), Andrey Toporkov, and Daiva Vaitkevičiene.
Meetings
Future Meetings
Bucharest, Romania, from 24 to 26 September, 2025
Call for Papers (PDF)
Past Meetings
Charms, Charmers and Charming Online Seminars
The Latest
Past Seminars
January 20, 2025: Book Launch: Charms from the Archival Sources (the 18th – the first third of the 20th centuries), Moscow, Indrik, vol. 1, compiled by T.A. Agapkina, 2023; vol. 2, compiled by A.B. Ippolitova and A.L. Toporkov, 2024
with Andrey Toporkov, Mare Koiva
December 9, 2024: Book Launch: Katherine Hindley, Textual Magic. Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England, Chicago-London, The University of Chicago Press, 2023
with Katherine Hindley, Kate Leach
December 2, 2024: Constructing Credibility in Divinatory Discourses at the Beginning of the 21st Century.
by Laura Jiga Iliescu
March 18, 2024: Verbal Charms as Small Folklore Genres – Small Folklore Genres as Parts of Verbal Charms
by Davor Nikolić
June 26, 2023: Book Launch: Eleonora Cianci, Nicholas Wolf (eds), The Language of Magic
with Eleonora Cianci, Lea Olsan, Nicholas Wolf
May 15, 2023: East-European Charms in the Gaelic West? International Narrative Charms in Ireland
by Barbara Hillers
March 27, 2023: A Mighty Benefactor and his Changing Functions. The Archangel Michael in Romanian Charms
by Emanuela Timotin
February 27, 2023: Book Launch: Aigars Lielbārdis, 150. Kolekcija buramvārdi / Collection 150. Charms
with Aigars Lielbardis, Daiva Vaitkevičiene
January 23, 2023: Alexander the Great’s Servants and the Disease Caused by Them. Brief Examination on the ‘Stealing Sacred Power’ Theme as Expressed by Romanian Legends and Charms about Fairies
by Laura Jiga Iliescu
November 28, 2022: Charms in Late Antique and the Earliest English Medicine. Transmission and Transformation
by Lea Olsan
October 31, 2022: Russian Versions of “The Dream of the Virgin Mary”. The Social Functioning of a Non-Canonical Text
by Andrey Toporkov
Resources
Incantatio. An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming on this site
Incantatio. An International Journal on Charms, Charmers and Charming on folklore.ee
International Annotated Charms Bibliography (a work in progress, version as of April 2015) (PDF)
Recent Charms Scholarship (PDF)
Discussion Documents 
Charm indexes: problems and perspectives (Revised) (PDF)
by Andrei Toporkov and Tatiana Agapkina
Responses to Toporkov and Agapkina’s proposals (PDF)
Links 
Charms, Magic, Folklore (in Russian)