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 Mare Kõiva, Lea Olsan, Éva Pócs, Jonathan Roper, Emanuela Timotin, Andrey Toporkov, and Daiva Vaitkevičiene.
Resources:
International Annotated Bibliography of Charms (a work in progress)
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:
Past meetings:
Moscow 2011 (conference book now online)
Programme (PDF)
Moscow Photos
Athens 2009 (PDF)
Abstracts (PDF)
Links
Charms, Magic, Folklore [in Russian] (co-ordinator A. Toporkov)
The Power of Words in Traditional European Culture (co-ordinator J. Borsje)
Romanian Love Charms Database (co-ordinator S. Golopentia)
Some of the committee members. L-r: front row: Mare Kõiva, Eva Pocs, Daiva Vaitkevičiene., Emanuela Timotin; back row: Jonathan Roper, Lea Olsan, Andrei Toporkov.
For more information, see this web site or contact jonathan.roper@ut.ee