Abstract
In Slovenia, charms or invocations are oneor two-strophe formulae that the medicine man or woman used at addressing the powers beyond to procure healing or to influence certain natural processes. They are as if a bridge between this world and the other, helping achieve to something on clearly supernatural or magical grounds. The following paper provides a brief insight into magical folk traditions as preserved in Slovene oral and written sources. The present article gives a short overview of contemporary magical practices in Slovenia, introducing a healer with inherited gift and words and her usual healing methods. I will also present a systematisation of Slovenian invocations with text samples and some cosmological principles as reflected in charms.
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