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About the Editors Kapaló, James is lecturer in the Study of Religions at University College Cork, Ireland. He received his PhD, a study of the contemporary folk religious practices amongst the Gagauz of Moldova, in 2009 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His current research interests include folk prayer, charming and healing practices in Romania and Moldova and Orthodoxy and new religious movements in contemporary Eastern Europe. He is the author of Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice (Brill, 2011). He has published articles on folk prayer, charming and popular religion, most recently “Genre and Authority in the Scholarly Construction of Charm and Prayer: A View from the Margins” Incantatio 1 (2011). póCs, ÉVa is professor emeritus at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pécs, Hungary. The crucial areas of her research are modern folk religion and folk beliefs, charms, cult of the dead, supernatural communication, witchcraft and demonology in the early modern and modern period. Author and editor of numerous books and articles . Among her publications are: Magyar ráolvasások I–II. (Hungarian incantations ; Budapest 1985-86); Fairies and Witches at the Boundary of South-Eastern and Central Europe (Helsinki, 1989); Between the Living and the Dead: a Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age (Budapest, 1998); ed.: Folk Religion and Folk Belief in Central-Eastern Europe (Budapest, 2009). ryan, WIllIam franCIs is emeritus professor of Russian Studies at the University of London and honorary fellow of the Warburg Institute; he is a fellow of the British Academy, and is Dr hon. causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He has been president of the Folklore Society and the Hakluyt Society, and editor of the Slavonic and East European Review. His main areas of research and publication are the history of science and magic in Russia, maritime history, and historical lexicography. He has published articles on Russian 306 THE POWER OF WORDS magic, divination, witchcraft and charms, and two books in this field: The Bathhouse at Midnight. An Historical Survey of Magic and Divination in Russia (Stroud, UK, and University Park, PA, 1999) and Russian Magic at the British Library: Books, Manuscripts, Scholars, Travellers, The Panizzi Lectures 2005 (British Library, London, 2006). ...

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