sounds like something the JSM should review!
dave e
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From: "jacqueline simpson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:56 PM
Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] English Folk Charms (verbal)
> Some while back I mentioned that there would be a
> study of traditional English verbal charms published
> soon. Well, it has arrived. It's Jonathan Roper,
> "English Verbal Charms" (ISBN 951-41-0968-6), 241
> pages, pub. by Folklore Fellows Communications,
> Academia Scientiarum Fennica. Obtainable from
> Bookstore Tiedekirja, Kirkkokatu 14, Helsinki,
> Finland. Email: [log in to unmask]
>
> Roper has assembled and analysed a database of over
> 500 English traditional verbal folk charms from
> Anglo-Saxon time to 20th century, and this book gives
> representative texts grouped into 45 types, and
> discusses various aspects of the genre, and of the
> practice of charming.
>
> There are two groupings: healing charms, mostly with
> strong Christian elements; and love divinations and
> other charms for non-healing purposes, which do not
> show religious traits.
>
> It's the first comprehensive study of the English
> material (it covers England only, not the rest of
> Britain or other anglophone countries), and also
> indicates some of the general European connections.
>
> May be of interest to some here.
>
> Jacqueline
>
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